Quotes About Hesitation

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

approaches him with some trepidation.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

Can I sleep with you the whole time we're here, Laura? Can I? Oh, please say I can! Every eyes, except for the ever discreet Addison's, turned to the duke. Sterling cleared his throat awkwardly, a most endearing flush creeping up his jaw.

Your belief is as important as your physical strength. You need to believe in yourself and in your weapon both. Doubt is the enemy. Hesitation is potentially fatal." Sebec

They are much more concerned about not doing the wrong thing than doing the right.

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara

In a time of peace, you have the luxury of order, but in war you must act. Hesitation is death.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

The thought had crossed his mind, only very fast and looking nervously from side to side in case it got knocked over.

It's amazing the things that seem a good idea at the time.

She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness—it's acting in the face of fear.

Sometimes we don't want to move, speak, or act like that. But something deep inside us pushes us to speak and act in that way. Afterward, we feel so ashamed.

You know when people ask sometimes what are you doing, and you say just something to them.

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

I couldn't even imagine kissing something.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

Denim and doubt, cotton and caution, fell to the floor in a forgotten heap

I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced air, and turned his back to me. "Was that an invitation, Ms.Lane?" "If it was?" I asked, astonishing myself. What did I think I was doing? "I don't do hypotheticals. Little girl.

Fear translates to hesitation, and hesitation kills.

You can tell them to run all you want but there aren't a lot of people that will, until they believe they're in major danger—which is usually too late. They gape like cows, and if you don't know it, cows gape a lot.

A chaste little kiss. Hardly even a kiss at all. Not that she would have invited his kisses, but—since he'd gone ahead and taken one and she was already damned for permitting it—was it too much to ask that he commit to it? Exercise a little follow-through? But

She had always scorned Hamlet, just a little. Five acts of vacillation, scene after scene of contemplation instead of action, putting on