Quotes About Hesitation

I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.

You're loitering, citizen." "Actually, I was hesitating.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

That is why I can never walk away from wrestling because there's this moment - the bell rings and everything slips away. The path, the future. There's nothing but that moment right in front of you where the intensity is high, the risk and reward are high, and you have to enter into a mental state that doesn't allow for hesitation.

I might put a couple of quarters in a slot machine, but I don't know how to play roulette.

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

The danger was not that I would do wrong, but that I would do nothing

or— and this was a thought she hated

Nick wasn't sure what he thought about

She could worry about it, do it, or not do it.

to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.

Y le dio pena que, en una situación como aquella, en la que un hombre de verdad sería capaz de tomar inmediatamente una decisión, él dudase, privando así de su significado al momento más hermoso que había vivido jamás

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

Don't make me regret this, " I said, breathless."You haven't regretted me once.

Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous, but I did not feel comfortable.

Every time I open my mouth to say what I'm feeling, something stops me and I have to make sure I'm not going to say anything stupid. It makes me crazy. And then, once I've figured out what I'm going to say, I have to go over it, over and over again, just to see if what I'm feeling is right. And then I have to figure out how to say it.

I want to go back, Daniel says, quietly, with effort. Where? I ask, unsure. There's a long pause that kind of freaks me out and Daniel finishes his drink and fingers the sunglasses he's still wearing and says, I don't know. Just back.

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?' 'Why not?' She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams. 'Because... I don't know,' she sighs. I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest.

did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to.

You're not going to arrest me or anything, are you?" "No.

They followed her, walking supererogatively on tiptoe, as though afraid to awaken the saints in whom they had never believed.

There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more 'God' than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness, attention, contemplation, hesitation and revival.