Quotes About Reluctance

I narrate a life I'm reluctant to live.

It seemed to me at that moment that the peril hanging over us, the horrors we had seen at Babi Yar and elsewhere, made it all the more vital that we love each other, never hurt each other, always be truthful and gentle with each other. Helena understood that also. I could see it in her eyes, sense it in her sighs, and small cries, and reluctance to let go of me.

Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out, but your hair looked too good to stay home?

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Fuck. Me, Vishous Breathed. I will so pass on that, Lassiter muttered.

The last goddamn thing I ever wanted was to fall in love. But you know what? I did anyway. I fell in love with you.

42  ââ'¬Å"O Prince, your ignorance of your True SelfWithin is the cause of your present reluctance to act, just as the opposite of ignorance, Self-knowledge, would bring fearless action. So with the sword of wisdom sever the doubts in your heart. Arise, O best of men, take your stand. Be a warrior!

In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.

My friends had to convince me to get a Twitter and Instagram.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

course, he didn't actually want her to go, nor did she care to join him. The tension in her shoulders eased a little, realizing he wanted her to say no. Pretending to contemplate his invitation, Zoe relaxed

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

One sort of glib explanation I heard once was that Rhetors could change the past, and were glad to do it, but Incanters could change the future—and were reluctant.

Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

Steele knew Breezy wasn't going to be won over easily, but as far as he was concerned, there was no other choice. He 'had' to win her over for his own self-preservation.

Fine, Julian agreed grudgingly. But if that idiot Barack happens by with his hangdog look, tell him to keep going.

The highest art in low politics is to be able to induce the masses to invest their own sense of dignity in yours. Then, if you are exposed as a fraud, they will be exposed as credulous: a conclusion they approach with a natural human reluctance.

Eragon's plan to let his family see Saphira was dispelled by Roran's announcement and Saphira's own cautionary words. She was reluctant to be seen, and he, partly out of selfishness, agreed. The moment her existence was divulged, he knew that shouts, accusations, and fear would be directed at him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ so he procrastinated. He told himself to wait for a sign that it was the right time.

it really did seem as though the company didn't want the project undertaken at all.

Amy did as she was told, albeit reluctantly, describing with every step the dire fate that was in store for Loretta when Hunter caught her. "He won't cut off my nose!" "Will so!" "Will not!" Loretta leaped across the wash and turned to help her cousin. "Now stop with trying to scare me.