Quotes About Reluctance

I seem to be allergic to diligence

Ah". Tzimisces smiled. "Let me guess. Flowery periphrases, back-to-back literary allusions and quotations from thousand-year-old authors. A marked reluctance to use one word when twelve can be jammed in if you sit on the lid.

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

I'm not used to doing press conferences, and I don't like giving interviews.

I'm not really a big fan of doing interviews.

I hate giving interviews.

Writing too was a mighty consumer of energy, besides a task one often went to with reluctance - not solely on account of its difficulty, but because every problem encountered had to be wrestled with in solitude.

The Romans learn Art from their Greek slaves, but they learn reluctantly. They are almost Modern in their reluctance; they are almost ready to say that a killing machine is beautiful if it works. They are not quite that modern, and they let Greek craftsmen conceal the brutal militarism with Architecture, Sculpture and Painting. They learn Aesthetics, that strange ability to see in blood gushing from a wound only the beauty of the shape and color.

There was always an excuse for why Kaladin needed the spear again, wasn't there? This was what he'd been afraid of. This was what made him tremble. The worry that he would never be able to put it down.

As a shame researcher, I understand our reluctance to talk about it—shame is so powerful that we sometimes feel shame just talking about shame.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

We resist getting near the suffering of another partly out of our unwillingness to suffer ourselves.

Well," said little Bilham, "you're not a person to whom it's easy to tell things you don't want to know.

Preferiría no hacerlo

I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

'Boom Bang a Bang' was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didn't relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didn't want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.

Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased. She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance, with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.