Quotes About Hesitation

In every decision there must be some regrets.

But a first choice is not always the right choice.

Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.

It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.

Cautious men have many adverbs, "usually," "nearly," "almost ": safe men begin, " it may be advanced " : you never know precisely what their premises are, nor what their conclusion is; they go tremulously like a timid rider; they turn hither and thither; they do not go straight across a subject, like a masterly mind.

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

Siempre pensaba en ti. Pero me sentía incapaz de llamarte. Tenía miedo de que, en cuanto te lo dijera todo se hiciese real.

There's someone I might be getting closer to, that's all. But it's not quite coming together yet. I think I'm not ready, either," I said. "Have you got ED?" she said. "Um, no, for a number of different reasons," I said, "but it might be something similar.

How about this—Romeo, you lean in several times as if you want to kiss Juliet, but Juliet, you always pull back. Can

It has been said that if the protagonists of Hamlet and Othello were reversed, there would have been no tragedy: Hamlet would have seen through Iago in no time and Othello would not have hesitated to kill King Claudius.

Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself

My present state is so happy that I can only look back with wonder at my hesitation to enter upon it.

After a little while, she takes my hand. Less than I want. More than I deserve. [...] Why didn't I kiss her? Because I'm going away. Am I? Am I still? I think. I think I need to. I think.

I don't want to think about or start thinking about figuring out my life, for whatever it's worth.

The truth is that today I had no destination. For some reason, I just had to ride past her house and see her. But that isn't the sort of thing you can confess to a girl while she is cleaning up from nursing you back to health. Or ever.

Bang, they say. Bang. And bang. And bang. I pull my hand into my lap, lest my acid touch sear her. Bang. Guns. Big guns. Yes, I've fired one once. Yes, I'll do it again. But maybe. I look over at Aneesa. Maybe not just yet. Maybe not right away.

When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn't meet expectations. But when asked about what they regret most when they look back on their lives as a whole, people tend to identify failures to act.

Before I had my heart problem, if I was asked to do something I would look through a mental file looking for reasons why I could say no.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

I'm very hesitant to call somebody a racist, a sexist.

In fact, I was very conscious of my accent and used to hesitate in talking to people.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.