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Quotes About Hesitation

hesitated to trade
~ Ulysses S. Grant
La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.
~ Victor Hugo
on a cough, but of course there was
~ Kristin Hannah
Questo è proprio il tuo modo di evitare le cose. Non si può non fare nulla perché si ha paura di restare feriti.»
~ Kristin Harmel
Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation.
~ La Bruy?re
Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.
~ Laini Taylor
Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.
~ Laini Taylor
Ves lo que pasa cuando titubeas? Que otros toman las decisiones por ti.
~ Laini Taylor
He pulled free of Ruza and turned to face it, but still he hesitated. "My boy," he heard in his mind - old Master Hyrrokkin's words, kindly meant. "I hardly think he's recruiting librarians, boy." And always, there was Thyon Nero's voice. "Enlighten me, Strange. In what version of the would could you possibly help? What version of the world? The dream version, in which he could do anything, even fly. Even reshape mesarthium. Even hold Sarai in his arms.
~ Laini Taylor
She looked across the room at Will , she wasn't sure why, only to find that he was looking back at her. They both glanced hastily away.
~ Cassandra Clare
Unless there was a reason for me to stay.
~ Cassandra Clare
But I think you're letting your fear get in the way of what you really want because what you really want is what you're afraid of.
~ Cassandra Clare
Yes." Tara's gaze moved from Jace's lips
~ Cat Johnson
Why aren't we going now?" "You know why." He tightened his hold on her ankle and tugged her closer, rolling over onto his back to avail himself of the view. He knew she wasn't aware of how revealing a knee-length skirt could be when a man eyed it from the ground up, and he managed to keep a straight face so she wouldn't guess. "Come here, little one." "I want to go back." He hoped she stood there arguing for a time.
~ Catherine Anderson
Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The adventurous part of me was looking forward to getting out into the world, meeting new people, trying new things. But another part of me was thinking that it was just too soon. Why couldn't everything stay the same for a little while longer?
~ Catherine Hapka
Raymond opened his mouth to say something. But he was still unclear on what the something would be. Part of him wanted to express what a big deal it was. Bigger than her words had tried to make it out to be. But it seemed unlikely that he would say a thing like that. He never had before.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sometimes you don't know exactly what it is but you know in your heart it's not good.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
che feche...il gran rifiuto
~ Cavafy
If only I'd done it then, when I should have, everything would have been easy. What a joke.
~ Giorgio Bassani
The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.
~ Glen Duncan
This had occurred to me. But for no reason I can dignify with anything higher than the authority of a two-hundred-year-old gut I didn't buy it. "It's possible," I said. "Of course it's possible." "But you don't think so" "No. I'm not sure why." Another silence, her intelligence working. Then a very slight smile. "It's because it would be less romantic," she said.
~ Glen Duncan
I have qualms and wonder what a qualm would look like if you painted it -- probably like a bowl of melting ice cream or a dish of Jell-o just before it sets.
~ Gloria Whelan