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Quotes About Hesitation

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.
~ Jim Thome
Krishna says in the Gita, "The worst crime in the world is indecision.
~ Sadhguru
Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease
~ Sam Snead
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
~ Samuel Butler
Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
~ Samuel Johnson
He stopped, because he wasn't sure what Cryptography had established, and because he needed another moment to haul himself down from the ledges of her high cheekbones, to retreat from the caves of her eyes.
~ Samuel R. Delany
One last question, son," he said to Felix. "Who were you expecting to see back there?" "I—no one," Felix stammered. "You asked where he was from," McGivney said. "Where did you think that would be?" "I don't know," Felix said, shifting unhappily from foot to foot.
~ Sara Paretsky
I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.
~ Sara Ryan
Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move.
~ Sara Shepard
I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
~ Kate Walsh
I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.
~ Bruce Willis
Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
~ John Steinbeck
My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.
~ Mario Vazquez
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
~ Harry S. Truman
The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.
~ Julia Roberts
I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Très vite dans ma vie il a été trop tard.
~ Marguerite Duras
Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Qualsiasi felicità è un capolavoro: il minimo errore la falsa, la minima esitazione la incrina, la minima grossolanità la deturpa, la minima insulsaggine la degrada.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I know what a man feels close to the woman he loves, but he's affraid to do anything
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Quería de veras un consejo, piensa, sabía que estabas enamorado de ella y quería saber si te atreverías a decírselo? Qué habría dicho si yo, piensa, qué habría yo si ella. Piensa: ay, Zavalita.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa