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Quotes About Hesitation

The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!
~ Henri Michaux
When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If in Doubt, don't do it
~ Leo Tolstoy
But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But as a young man in love trembles and thrills, not daring to utter what he dreams of by night, and looks about fearfully, seeking help or the possibility of delay and flight, when the desired moment comes and he stands alone with her, so now Rostov, having attained what he desired more than anything in the world, did not know how to approach the sovereign and presented thousands of considerations to himself for why it was unsuitable, improper, and impossible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Cowardice is knowing what you should do and then not doing it. Confucius
~ Leo Tolstoy
Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate
~ Leonard Cohen
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.
~ Leonard Cohen
Sometimes you just have to do things, Quentin," Julia said, as he climbed on board after her. "You spend too much of your time waiting.
~ Lev Grossman
And on and on, and it all sounded completely, horribly plausible. Any one of a thousand options promised - basically guaranteed - a rich, fulfilling, challenging future for him. So why did Quentin feel like he was looking around frantically for another way out? Why was he still waiting for some grand adventure to come and find him? The professors Quentin talked to about it didn't seem concerned at all. They didn't get what the problem was. What should he do? Why, anything he wanted to!
~ Lev Grossman
Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.
~ Robert J. Shiller
To espresso or to latte, that is the question," he muttered, his free will evaporating rapidly. I had asked Hamlet for something he couldn't easily supply: a decision. "Whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain
~ Jasper Fforde
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
As it so often does, an impulsive, daring suddenly - and too late - seemed seriously flawed in its conception and its inability to be retracted.
~ Jean Ferris
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
~ Jean Rhys
I stretched out my hands, holding the falling sun in one hand, and the climbing moon in the other, my silver and gold, my gift from life. My gift of life. My life is a hesitation in time. An opening in a cave. A gap for a word.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!
~ Amy Pascal
I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.
~ Joe Teti
Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting.
~ Tony Evans
My parents were struggling actors who had a hard time getting work. That's why I hesitated about getting into acting, I had seen them going through that.
~ Camila Morrone
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
~ Sam Mendes
I'd never be overly confident about anything.
~ Leo Varadkar
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
~ Tom Stoppard
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
~ Tom Stoppard