Quotes About Hesitation

I haven't stuck my head out to be captain of England.

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

As my friends will tell you, I am a superior agonizer. Believe me, you do not want me in the cockpit of an airliner. But in my defense, choosing an idea is also a high-stakes affair.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

A manilla envelope came through the mail slot a few weeks later. I had a little queasiness about meeting that teenager directly, and so I waited several years to open it.

Trust your intuitive heart. How often have you said to yourself, after the fact, "I knew I should have done that"? How often do you intuitively know something but allow yourself to think yourself out of it?

He'd already made her for Kiriath and was backing off like a poet asked to wash dishes.

I hesitated, pretending to weigh it up. "What's the deal in the bar?" "Ha ha ha." Someone had programmed a laugh into the robot. It sounded like a fat man drowning in syrup.

Once bitten, twice shy; twice bitten, forever shy.

He became nervous, things blurred in his mind, and he would sometimes make a decision simply in order to have the matter settled rather than because he knew what he wanted.

Let me know, Iain. Let you know what? If you're going to keep her or not. And if I'm not? Then I am.

Judith, do you take Ian for your husband?" She looked up at him before giving her answer. "We'll see

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

Wonder, fear, discovery, suspicion, hesitation, fascination, curiosity—all were crammed into his little eyes...

If you did not want to, you should say a simple "no"; but by hesitating you implied that your consent was already half given.

Unsichere Fragen und ungeeignetster Augenblick, sie zu stellen!

Why'd you wait so long to show someone those spots, Bayard?

The man hesitated and then reached across to shake Ordo's hand, surrendering soft pale civilian fingers to a black gauntlet. The look on his face said clearly that he hadn't expected to find flesh and blood inside the droid-like shell, or to retrieve his hand uncrushed afterward. "My pleasure, sir," Ordo said. It was unusually quiet in the EasyRide after that. At least the reality had registered on them.

Okay. Good.' He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take

I'm not a betting man.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.