Quotes About Reluctance

Dear bed, I'm sorry I left you this morning, take me back?

I'm not being stubborn, I just have instinctual reluctancy.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Unwillingly I left your land, O Queen.

And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?

You stole my paranoia, she said. I was going to say, 'Don't go.' But you're going to no matter what I say, aren't you?

They weren't keen on sending someone to dispose of his clothing and other personal effects.

There is, in fact, a primary driving force behind women's reluctance to see their ambition as a virtue.

Sloth kept him in bed awhile. Restlessness drove him downstairs to the tiny court behind his kitchen, where the sun made more mist. Under its warmth everything gave off ghosts. They work from the bricks, rose with a deep reluctance, disappeared.

Still, he always approahed the job with a faint reluctance, disliking the manner of it more than the result. Chopping down a tree for timber was straight-forward; girdling it seemed somehow mean-spirited, if practical, leaving the tree to die slowly, unable to bring water from its roots above the ring ot bare, exposed wood. It was not so unpleasant in the fall, at least, when the trees were dormant and leafless already; it must be rather like dying in their sleep, he thought. Or hoped.

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

I really don't like having to get dressed up.

I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.

Essa subito decise, perché afferrò la mia mano per trattenermi più sicuramente e mi fece entrare. L'emozione m'oscurò la vista e ritengo sia stata provocata non tanto dal dolce contatto di quella mano, ma da quella familiarità che mi parve decidesse del mio e del destino di Augusta. Perciò credo di essere entrato con qualche riluttanza e, quando rievoco la storia del mio primo tradimento, ho il sentimento di averlo compiuto perché trascinatovi.

I feel like I should apologize. I didn't want to like you, but I couldn't help it." "Really? I wanted to like you. Wow, you're like the meanest woman ever.

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

Many Haitians don't want to participate in something they think will be violent.

There's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they love, needs help.

back of the other person. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who are reluctant to do this and/or feel very awkward when

Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, identifies this reluctance. He calls it resistance. He writes, "There is a force resisting the beautiful things in the world, and too many of us are giving in.

When I say, 'It's a long story,' it usually means I just don't want to tell you.

If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.

I'm lazy and I do procrastinate about laundry!