Quotes About Reluctance

the powerful are often reluctant to take advice

Mat snorted. "I don't want to be any bloody hero.

The sun rose reluctantly, without warmth.

popped into his head then, one he did not want to ask, one

Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try?

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

I've come to the conclusion that what superheroes might be — in their current incarnation, at least — is a symbol of American reluctance to involve themselves in any kind of conflict without massive tactical superiority.

He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.

Shiva's reluctance to marry is a consistent theme in Shaiva lore. In effect he opposes the birth of the cosmos, preferring the blissful state in which matter is in a state of entropy and the spirit is free of form. Not surprisingly, he is called the god of destruction.

That's silly, it always happens at the last moment – it's so tiresome packing,' said Drogo purposely, as if he had not understood her undertone of feeling. It needed a word, a simple phrase to tell her that he was sorry she was leaving. But Drogo did not want to ask for anything – at that moment he was really not capable of it, he would have felt he was lying. So he said nothing and gave a vague smile.

He did not want to see the war movie. It would be full of shit.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

I felt it a week before we left, every time. And then of course, when the time came, I was never ready to leave. I wanted to stay forever.

Also I think you're stalling because you don't want to answer the question.

The nation, Dodd had written, must discard its "righteous aloofness" because "another life and death struggle in Europe would bother us all—especially if it was paralleled by a similar conflict in the Far East (as I believe is the understanding in secret conclaves)." Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, "I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.

Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.

Nick did not want to go in there now. He felt a reaction against deep wading with the water deepening up under his armpits, to hook big trout in places impossible to land them. In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half light, the fishing would be tragic. In the swamp fishing was a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it. He did not want to go down the stream any farther today. He

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had.

He nodded. Reluctantly. He'd had enough of silent assent. Of agreeing to everything she communicated to him, with everything she decided. But he nodded. He loved her, when all was said and done.