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Quotes About Hesitation

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.
~ Carolyn Hax
Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
~ Gayle Forman
Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy.
~ Peter Andre
I'm going to arrange you, if that's okay?" I swallowed. "Uh... sure." My hands were clutched to my ribcage, my shoulders hunched almost to my ears. What, this isn't how you want me positioned?
~ Tammara Webber
The first day of the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don't feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn't bothered.
~ Cecelia Ahern
If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.
~ Chinua Achebe
Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
~ Chris Kirkpatrick
For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.
~ Colson Whitehead
The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.
~ Steven Erikson
Somehow, I don't see myself doing a lead role.
~ Badshah
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
~ J. D. Salinger
The question that is upon my lips (please forgive me) is the doubt in your heart
~ Jeremy Aldana
I'm sorry I left without telling you, " she says. "I wasn't ready. I wanted it so much, and I wasn't ready for that.
~ Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well
Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
~ Veronica Roth
For a full two hours, he stood at that door, a cloud of uncertainty ruling his mind. Damian felt like his heart was about to burst. Could she love him? Was it really true?
~ Elaine White, Novel Hearts
.. questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?..
~ Nicholas. Sparks, The Choice
Neal huffed. Frustrated. "I hate that you thought I wouldn't call--I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative?
~ Rainbow Rowell, Landline
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.
~ Mitch Albom
I knew he was right. Not that I did anything about it.
~ Mitch Albom
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass. "Me
~ Mitch Albom
Ico thrust out his left hand, shouting to the girl. She had already sunk to her knees. For the space of a breath, barely long enough to blink, she hesitated. Her eyes focused on Ico, questioning, trying to peer into the bottom of his soul. Where her gaze fell on him, he felt cool, as though clear water washed over him. He gasped with the sensation. She thrust out her arm and grabbed his hand.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Not—please understand me—that I was convinced that I had made a mistake; no, I was merely unconvinced that I had not made a mistake. I was, in other words, confused.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Avevano cominciato, entrambi, a essere penetrati, ma non si erano ancora dati un bacio.
~ Mohsin Hamid
He wasn't going to let her in. The realization came like the dawn: gradually then all at once.
~ Monica Ali