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Quotes About Hesitation

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.
~ Italo Calvino
where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third,
~ Italo Calvino
are you telling me i can't stay here untill saterday?
~ Dan Abnett
Do you have to go," I asked, "or do you have to go?
~ Dan Gutman
If she hadn't wanted to marry him, she could have thought up a good dozen ways to break it to him besides running from the altar like a scalded cat.
~ Unknown
Very calmly, Gray let out his breath. He wanted nothing more than to gather her in his arms and comfort her in the best way he knew, but something warned him against it. Hugging her would be like embracing a thorn bush.
~ Unknown
I asked, "How do you think that would work?" The major said, "If they didn't get any Execute message? Oh, I think they'd come back." Pause. "Most of them." The last three words didn't register with me right away because before they were out of his mouth, my head was exploding. I kept my face blank but a voice inside was screaming, "Think? You think they'd come back?!
~ Daniel Ellsberg
One of the most robust findings, in the academic research and my own, is that over time we are much more likely to regret the chances we didn't take than the chances we did.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky said that the problem with making decisions is that we are often making them under conditions of uncertainty.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
I said no to Aston Villa because I was not ready. I said yes to Cardiff because I felt ready. But I was not.
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Hesitating and hand-wringing when confronted by violence discourages the human-rights activists on the front lines and emboldens the enemy.
~ Richard Grenell
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
~ Andre Breton
Do I often feel conflicted or ambivalent regarding my relationship with this person?
~ Unknown
Wiktor almost smiled. His suspicions were
~ Unknown
This doesn't feel right, patron.
~ Louise Penny
Solo gli imbecilli non hanno dubbi" "Ne sei proprio sicuro?" "Non ho alcun dubbio!
~ Luciano De Crescenzo
one half leaning in, one half pulling away.
~ Jodi Picoult
Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights? I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully, the right fist he's been banging against the wooden railing unfurls and is raised over his head, moving back and forth like a metronome.
~ Jodi Picoult
It was one of those moments where I knew we were not having the conversation that we needed to be having. And since I didn't really know what to say, never having crossed this particular bridge between thought and deed before, I pressed my and against the thick ridge in his pants. He backed away from me.
~ Jodi Picoult
O. Odio esa palabra. Una sola letra y tiene todos los requisitos de la duda razonable.
~ Jodi Picoult
What on earth shall I do
~ Johanna Spyri
For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell people about the empty seats in the carriage, but he decided not to as something told him that if it didn't make Mother angry, it would probably make Gretel furious, and that would be worse still.
~ John Boyne
Bruno: Me parece que no puedo dejarlo. Me parece que no quiero.
~ John Boyne