Quotes About Hesitation

She was always struggling over what was the best way to react. There were so many contradictions between what she was told and what she saw that she could only hesitatingly move forward, lacking, as she did, power and knowledge. She was a girl trying to make her way.

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.

Doubtful disputations.

Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom. Smoke: her great-uncle says it is a suspension of particles, billions of drifting carbon molecules. Bits of living rooms, cafés, trees. People.

trying and failing to summon the courage to go out.

every timidity eventually turns into regret.

There was no hesitation now to address Octavian as Caesar;

both Sextus' fleet and infantry held back. This was a serious error

I felt completely out of my depth. There were so many questions I wanted to ask him but at the same time I was afraid of offending him.

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

I think anytime you have any sort of injury, you know I've come back from a pulled hamstring in college one time, foot injuries. The movement that causes the initial jolt of pain you always kind of are tentative when you have to make that movement, especially as you kind of build back up.

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.

I hate New Year's Eve! I never make resolutions because I never stick to them and it puts a lot of pressure on me.

Sometimes, I do think about direction but I haven't much about it. I don't know if I want to put my foot in the other boat.

And it occurs to me that some way back I began a sentence that I never finished...

This was the wrong Magic-to begin by saying too late.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.

I remember what my uncle Pa Keating would say, there are times when you wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.