Quotes About Hesitation

Marry her? Do I look crazy?" "There ain't enough 'ruin' in this world to make me marry him.

He looks at me and I know he is going to say no but I don't turn away and I don't stop looking because ever since Mira said I noticed him I have made a point not to notice him and for the first time I am noticing that his eyes have a dark ring of brown around a golden iris and I find that infinitely interesting because my eyes are the same color and I think he notices this too at the exact same moment and a chill shivers over me, and like a miracle, he says, "Let's go.

When you're so undecided, it's better not to do anything, the right course of action is to take no action at all

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know...

What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you, it's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you, and it's everything in between. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now.

I don't think -" I begin, but then I stop there. Strangely enough, this sounds like a full, declarative sentence, as if I'm standing in a bar shouting out one of my most obvious character flaws. I don't think!

She wondered if she'd taken the first step on the road away from her dreams. What scared her was how easy it had been to do it.

She forced herself to hold his gaze. Why couldn't she stop caring? Why did her belly still flutter with anticipation at his presence? Clint took a step toward her. "Are you certain about this, Mattie?" he asked, his voice low and intense.

But that is exploration: a great deal of hesitation, doubt, error, and then, quite suddenly, a discovery.

the stranger met every remark; not a thoughtful pause, but rather as though he wondered if it were worth while to make any answer.

I'm thinking," he said. To bed or not to bed his wife? That was the question.

He examined everything freely, I hesitated in front of many things. He destroyed but did not build, saying what was not, but not what was. And denial is convincing; it sets neither boundaries nor goals for itself. It strives toward nothing; it defends nothing. It is harder to defend something than to attack it, because everything that is made reality constantly wears down, constantly deviates from the initial idea.

Then she stepped through the door....She stopped so hard that Rainey bumped into her from behind. She went cold. If she'd been a dog, she would have dug her paws in and laid her ears flat and backed out, growling.

I open the journal now and pick up the pen, but I can't bring myself to write a word.

He didn't feel the need to have his life figured out. But the truth was that he didn't want to deal with it.

I don't know,' Greer said to Zee, aware of a kind of familiar vagueness sweeping around her. She sometimes said, 'I don't know,' even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

Bialystock: Leo - he who hesitates is poor!

I ignore Jaco Coote when I see him. I'm not sure why. It's not as if I dislike him or anything. I think I ignore him because if I look at him I might find that he's looking at me, and I'm not sure where that would lead us.

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

I feel scared, if I'm honest, and part of me wants to stay here for ever. But most of me knows we have to carry on.

I not really sure if we can

There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth.

Looking back at that conversation, I can't help wondering: Did I know? Did I know what was coming, and did I think that as long as I wouldn't let Livvie say the words, they wouldn't be true?

The reality was that while they might have eternity, there was violence on the horizon. And in the present. She wasn't intending on ignoring it. She couldn't. But she wasn't going to ignore them either. Just kiss me, ---." A look of hesitation crossed his face, but he didn't push her away. He swept her legs from under her and lifted her into his arms. " -Darkest Mercy (p 28)