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Quotes About Hesitation

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Sometimes when people give you suggestions they are kind of making you nervous, you wonder whether you are doing something wrong.
~ Anupriya Goenka
My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.
~ Jamie Bamber
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones awakening, depths opening to you. In the dusky bookstalls old books glimmer gold and brown. You think of lands you journeyed through, of paintings and a dress once worn by a woman you never found again. And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there appears before you in all its longings and hesitations the shape of what you lived.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?
~ Randy Alcorn
Now, with the message sent, the words said, she wanted to call them back, to censor, to rearrange them, to make a prettier sentence, a fairer explanation of her soul.
~ Ray Bradbury
True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
~ Joseph Conrad
I had immense plans,' he irresolutely muttered.
~ Joseph Conrad
I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.
~ Joseph Heller
Yossarian was not sure he liked being invested in.
~ Joseph Heller
I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.
~ Joseph Heller
Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Why had she hesitated to say they were lost, why hadn't she told him to turn the car around, to reverse their course, oh please!—but she had not dared offend him. The black water was her fault, she knew. You just don't want to offend them. Even the nice ones.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Katya stood in the doorway at the rear of Mr Kidder's studio and could not seem to step out onto the terrace and run away. Panting like a dog that has been trained by his master and can't break out of his training, though his training has hurt, humbled, humiliated him and enslaved him.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Our problem is that we always want to hold on to the past and still go into the future. That is what is meant by having a double heart. In James 1:8 we read that a person who is of two minds is hesitating, dubious, irresolute, unstable, unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels or decides. The King James Version says, A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
~ Joyce Meyer
God help him. He chortled. He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it. -Dr. Whitticomb
~ Judith McNaught
She wondered if he would try to make love to her and if he did, whether she would let him. It was hard to refuse if someone really wanted to, She tried to remember how she had refused someone in the past and then realized that she couldn't remember because she had never actually done it.
~ Judith Rossner
Sarah's lips curl..."That's not my kind of action." Still, there is a trace of hesitation in her voice, as if she's bidding farewell to a cherished dream, having found its price.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Err on the side of caution
~ Wang Bo
wouldn't put money on it," Daisy muttered. Logan
~ Wendy Mass
Something touched my shoulder. I started to flinch. Stopped myself. The offer was too good. My cock throbbed in response.
~ Wendy Rathbone
When I look back on most of my life, it breaks my heart that when my brain was unloading an endless pile of what ifs on me, it never asked, "What if I go do this thing that I want to do, and it's . . . fun? What if I enjoy myself, and I'm really glad I went?
~ Wil Wheaton
It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.
~ Will Christopher Baer