Quotes About Hesitation

I had the same worry that we wouldn't later be able to undo whatever it was we were doing to ourselves.

Delay is a gun pointed at the temple of confidence.

It was time to leave. He was insufferable, had toilet problems, looked demented to begin with, and now he was the accomplice to a cat killer. Yet did I leave? No, I sat there. And I thought, What has happened to me? Why am I not rising up off the sofa? Why am I not leaving?

I said yes because I didn't want to do anything wrong.

Just say you're not ready." "Does that work?" "Sometimes." I wanted to ask Sam about the other side of "sometimes," but I didn't want to be too personal, and I didn't want to know deep down.

Why—why—" stammered the youth struggling with his balking tongue.

The battle roar settled to a rolling thunder, which was a single long explosion. In the regiment there was a peculiar kind of hesitation denoted in the attitudes of the men. They were worn, exhausted, having slept but little and labored much. They rolled their eyes toward the advancing battle as they stood awaiting the shock. Some shrank and flinched. They stood as men tied to stakes.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

He who hesitates is usually fucked!

There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl, her father had told her once. Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing... or ye can decide not to decide. That last, her da had never quite come out and said (he hadn't needed to) was the choice of weaklings and fools.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Sure I'd had second thoughts. But thoughts are not choices.

the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end . . . and knowing there's so much worth saving.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

I would show him the hotel brochure, but

But when it came to her own behavior—to the threat she posed to herself—she'd been incapable of gauging its gravity and reluctant to avail herself of the only option for fixing it. Too little, too late, she'd now tried to address it.

a reason why not. And—and, let's pretend

Don't worry. I know we have our differences, but there's a lot of mutual respect there. If he hesitates, I'll sweet-talk him. He won't let us down." "That total and utter idiot," Lockwood growled. "That mustachioed imbecile. That benighted, blinkered jobsworth. He's a clown! A fraud! An oaf! I hate him." "How's the mutual respect thing going?" George said.

Edward finds Elinor crying for her dead father, offers her his handkerchief and their love story commences. Ang [Lee] very anxious that we think about what we want to do . I'm very anxious not to do anything and certainly not to think about it.

Nel caso di Romand il fatto più sconcertante è che la follia sia stata commessa in due tempi, come uno che mentre lavora al computer schiacci il tasto sbagliato, rischiando di perdere un file prezioso, e quando il programma chiede: «Sei sicuro di voler eliminare il documento?», dopo aver soppesato i pro e i contro, dia ugualmente l'ok.

Then suddenly there was a flash, and thunder pealed. Lassie hesitated and whined in a quick, querulous tone. She was frightened. It is little use to blame a dog for having fear. A dog has so many braveries that its few fears do not cancel them out. And truth to tell, there are few collies that can stand thunder and lightning.

One knows what is right, but holds it at arm's length for a time, neither throwing it out, nor embracing it.