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Quotes About Hesitation

She stood firm, biting her lip. "I asked you a question, Rory. Yes, or no?" He hesitated. "It's not as easy as that." 'It is," said Elle, feeling her heart physically ache. "It has to be. If you won't come to the pub with me, I have to go now, otherwise I'll change my mind, and that would be stupid. Very, very stupid.' She covered her face with her hands, breathing deeply. "As stupid as I've been these past few years... Oh, God, no.
~ Harriet Evans
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
~ Harry S. Truman
Say it, Christa! Dammit, was I imagining things, or did you say that you loved me?" "I—" She paused. "I said it!" she whispered. "And you meant it?" She lowered her gaze and then her head. "I meant it.
~ Heather Graham
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Fine. If you insist. I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But-- I won't enjoy it.
~ Lee Wardlaw
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I'm wrong, but I don't have the courage to say so.
~ Lemony Snicket
So you're reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It's like having feet. It's nothing to brag about.
~ Lemony Snicket
It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway. Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will eer know why.
~ Lemony Snicket
La timidez es algo curioso, por que, al igual que las arenas movedizas, se apodera de las personas en cualquier momento y, también como las arenas movedizas, hace que sus víctimas miren hacia abajo.
~ Lemony Snicket
You're not caught in a dilemma?" he asked. I looked at my feet. I didn't know what a dilemma was, but it didn't look like I was caught in anything, so I shook my head no.
~ Lenore Look
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
~ James Thurber
I have no talent for certainty.
~ Jane Austen
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
~ Jane Austen
You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?
~ Jane Austen
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
~ Jane Austen
Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation;
~ Jane Austen
If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
~ Jane Austen
Si una mujer duda si debe aceptar o no a un hombre, lo evidente es que debería rechazarle.
~ Jane Austen
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
~ Jane Austen
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly.
~ Jane Austen
I cannot believe that I am actually excited at the sight of him. It has been long since anyone has made me feel THIS...and even though I know I've avoided THIS for fear of getting hurt, there's something about him that makes me want to trust him.
~ Jane Green
I had absolutely no idea what to say to him, this man I had struggled
~ Jane Green
I looked over at him. Is that a proposal? There was total silence for a couple beats. I'm not sure. It just popped out. Let me know when you're sure. Would you say yes? Morelli asked. I'm not sure.
~ Janet Evanovich
When in dread, my rule was always to procrastinate.
~ Janet Evanovich