Quotes About Hesitation

He wanted to wrap his arms around her and kiss away her uncertainty. But if he did that she would bolt. So he brushed stray hairs that had fallen out of her ponytail off her face instead. Ignored how soft the strands felt against his fingers. Pretended his pulse wasn't stampeding like a herd of bison on the plain.

That was the time for me to have said, "After all these years, is that what you think of me?" But I didn't. The moment passed. It passed as it had passed so many hundreds of times before, so many thousands of times before.

I doubt it with a silent B.

It isn't action, he suspects, that usually lands a thief in prison. It's hesitation.

India returned to her kneading, but repeated under her breath, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it!

But I didn't dare. That has always been my trouble. I've never dared enough.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

Când nu e?ti sigur, ocole?te.

We talk for maybe ten minutes, perfunctory talk in a way that we're never really perfunctory, all skirting the question of us, and I begin to wonder if she had caller ID whether she'd picked up at all.

When put to it, I can be an alright conversationalist. But I find openings are always tricky.

I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking up the phone. Sometimes I even dialed your parents' number but then I wondered what I'd say to you. We had left it too long. How would we ever get around the silence, which was like an elephant sitting in the room?

A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a person wonders: Am I fast enough or lucky enough?

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no. But in your case I'm not so sure. You still have feelings for her." -Virginia Dare

I hear a but in there somewhere

Yaz and Meyer didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter

didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter was looking like a strong

Everyone hesitates – gets afraid, screws up, sometimes badly. Often with tragic consequences. The question is: after it happens, can you put down that bag of bricks and forget about it? Or are you going to carry it around, and let it ruin the rest of your day?

When she saw me, my mother stood up and started to come toward me, but then stopped. I think maybe Cat Poop had told her not to make any sudden movements because they might scare me, like I'm a wild animal or something, because she kept looking at him and then at me. Finally she just said, "Hello, Jeff," and sat down again next to my father.

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.

And just because I was a little more willing and a lot more able to be a parent didn't mean I was itching to become one.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Of course we don't have to undertake any of these plans. But if we don't, chances are, sooner or later, we will regret it.