Quotes About Reluctance

When I first heard about 'The Flash,' I said, 'No thanks.' I thought I'd just be running around in a union suit.

The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest

Some of us are so stubborn we won't trust God until we have no other choice at all.

Judd: I like to be here until people really want to leave. But that's kind of how I am as a person. That's why my movies are too long. That's why I eat too much.

My brother's a pain. He won't get out of bed In the morning. Mom has to carry him Into the kitchen. He opens his eyes

Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given.

I can't." My voice just above a whisper. "I just can't." "Because you won't allow help?" I shut my eyes tight, not answering. "My help?" he asked.

Because adherence to standard operating procedures is difficult to second-guess, decision makers who expect to have their decisions scrutinized with hindsight are driven to bureaucratic solutions—and to an extreme reluctance to take risks.

the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.

The general theme of these findings is that the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.

the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others. The

The defining feature of System 2, in this story, is that its operations are effortful, and one of its main characteristics is laziness, a reluctance to invest more effort than is strictly necessary. As a consequence, the thoughts and actions that System 2 believes it has chosen are often

Young people's reluctance to read is all the harder to understand if you're of a generation, a time, a background, a family, where everyone always tried to keep you from reading.

He left out that he did not simply go to war--he had to be dragged kicking and screaming. He said that it was not that he was afraid--just that seeming to agree with such a thing would suggest one hadn't given it any thought.

Few are inclined to imagine that apparently minor changes in climate or technology or some other variable can somehow be responsible for severing connections to the world of their fathers. The Romans were reluctant to acknowledge the changes unfolding around them. So are we.

The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.

Someone should go take a look. See what's in it. He said it, but he really didn't want to be the one to do it. Let's go together, she said easily. She surprised him with her courage. Sometimes you have the worst ideas, he responded. He'd tried to make it feel sarcastic, but he knew the truth of it far more than he wanted to admit to himself. He was terrified.

or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

No quiero morir todavía! ¡Aún me duele la cabeza, estaré de mal humor y no lo disfrutaré!

an air of infinite reluctance M. Poirot climbed aboard the train. The conductor climbed after him.

Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use." "And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Rather unwillingly, Colonel Luscombe stepped across the threshold and had the door shut firmly behind him.

mucho. —¿Y yo? —¿Tú? —Sí, yo. —¡Oh, yo no podría! —¿Por qué no? —No, porque no puedo.