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Quotes About Hesitation

You're never satisfied until you've got two buts and an if attached to everything.
~ Dashiell Hammett
He narrows his eyes. "Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need.
~ David Almond
there?" "Doubtful. While
~ David Baldacci
Shaw didn't answer, He didn't know anything, not for sure. But what he did have was an instict that almost never led him down the wrong path. And every inner warning signal he had was blaring away.
~ David Baldacci
I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
~ David Bowie
He was unsure what the thing inside him was and was unprepared to commit himself to the course of action that would be required to explore the question.
~ David Foster Wallace
Still, though. Right. Exactly.
~ David Foster Wallace
For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.
~ David Foster Wallace
My aunt asks again if I'm sure it's no problem and I don't answer because I'm afraid of how my voice will sound.
~ David Foster Wallace
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
~ William Shakespeare
It puzzles the will.
~ William Shakespeare
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
~ William Shakespeare
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
~ William Shakespeare
Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn't make up her mind.
~ Winston Graham
there followed a period lasting for about three months of Turkish hesitation and delay, having the effect of consummate duplicity
~ Winston S. Churchill
Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.
~ Cicero
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
~ Cicero
I merely leap and pause." (Either you got the pause or you don't got the pause.)
~ Clive James
Oh! To rationalize oneself into matrimony...Oh! To decide something so grave in life 'after mature consideration'! Choose the color of a dress after a thousand hesitations, but for God's sake, get married without reflecting on it! That's the grace I wish I wish for you. May you even be so distracted that day that you walk past the registry office without remembering to stop there.
~ Colette
Como siempre, confunde duda con profundidad, vacilación con análisis.
~ Unknown
And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone.
~ Hilary Mantel
My father doesn't have views. He would like to, but he can't take the risk.
~ Hilary Mantel
I don't know what to apologize for first," I say. "Cutting off your head or hesitating so long to do it.
~ Holly Black
Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel
~ Holly Black