Quotes About Hesitation

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

I think people may regret not following their instincts a lot.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

I don't regret anything I haven't done.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets.

When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

She swayed slightly as I came through the door, like a ghost debating whether to vanish. She stayed.

I opened the door. Nonononono.

I pushed a foot out from under my sheets, but couldn't bring myself to connect it to the floor.

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this.

I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.

He wanted to tell me that he is in love with me. Why did I stop him? Am I so ashamed that it might be true?

I felt myself reddening slightly, not from embarrassment, but from shame, that she'd said so easily the very words, I like you, that I wouldn't let myself say to her.

hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around. 'I'm learning what

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

By being human, I was actually being inhumane. My hesitation to embrace my new abilities was causing needless suffering. Once you cross that moral threshold—once you decide to kill a man who hasn't threatened or wronged you—better to do it quickly, or whatever moral high ground you're standing on gets washed away by their blood.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.