Quotes About Hesitation

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

I don't know. I don't want to sell him. All right. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.

She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke Is it really you? Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is.

I'm ready now." If he'd intervened, it might have

I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord.

I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather

You wouldn't have any idea what's going on, would you? BAYARD, shaking his head: I was walking down the street. LEBEAU: Me too. Something told me—Don't go outside today. So I went out. Weeks go by and I don't open my door. Today I go out. And I had no reason, I wasn't even going anywhere. Looks left and right to the others. To Bayard: They get picked up the same way?

And for a moment—only a moment, mind you—I felt my confidence slip.

however, the doubts really set in.

She considered my request for a moment.

before I could get the words out of my mouth.

But for whatever reasons—hubris, inattention, wishful thinking, hesitation, or the uncertainty of the moment—I let the opportunity pass.

Everyone understands, though, that a great deal of uncertainty about what to do for people will always remain.

He stood mumbling for a moment

there's always something. We want these choices. But that doesn't mean we are eager to make the choices ourselves. Instead, most often, we make no choice at all. We fall back on the default, and the default is: Do Something. Fix Something. Is there any way out of this? There

I froze, not knowing quite what to say.

He hesitated before going on.

but I began to have doubts about pulling out the screw.

But doubts nevertheless creep in.

She said she would not go ahead with surgery.

After a momentary hesitation, he decided to join me.

I wanted to write in my journal but couldn't bring myself to. There are so many shades to what passed through me in those days. And I would shrink from committing myself to paper because the light would change before the word was out, the ink was dry.