Quotes About Hesitation

Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly

it sometimes happens that when one acts quickly and with great resolve, all the indecisiveness and doubt comes afterwards, when it is too late. So

But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

Maybe it takes a coward more courage—not less—to do and not do things. Perhaps cowards understand the world so much better than brave folk.

When I say I want time to think, I want time to think! Jonathan sighed wearily. All right, you've had time to think. What's your answer? That I need more time to think!

She was backing away from him now. Don't go, was his first panicked thought. Followed by: Hurry up.

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

When he decided they weren't police, he realized he'd been thinking maybe they were.

Maybe. Maybe I'm just talking out of my exhaust pipe, and it wouldn't be the first time.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

I am hesitating about joining politics since I know the difficulties.

Suspicion is a tenuous thing, so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth is not easy to determine.

I should have shot you when I had the chance.

Einen Augenblick lang fixierte er ihn, als schwanke er zwischen Mord und Kniefall.

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.

Donde no puedas amar, no te demores

But with you, I don't know what to trust.

que nadie ha lamentado nunca darle una sacudida de más, pero te garantizo que todo hombre lamenta darle una de menos».

Yeah but I don't know how to make myself go there. Maybe it might never happen again. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Interestingly, research shows that in the short term, we tend to regret bad outcomes where we took action. However, when we reflect back over the long term, we more often regret the actions we didn't take—what we didn't do—and we think of those as missed opportunities.

when we reflect back over the long term, we more often regret the actions we didn't take—what we didn't do—and we think of those as missed opportunities.

There's no such thing as the biggest mistake," her mother said. "There's only what you do and what you don't do.