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Quotes About Hesitation

I write how sorry I am for not contacting her sooner, but I was afraid, a coward, and I am trying to be braver now. I try and try and try every day, all day long.
~ Unknown
He was always just about to leave, always about to pick up the phone, and he always persuaded himself for a minute or two that stretched into thirty, into two hours, into night. We go back a long way.
~ Nicola Griffith
Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.
~ Nicole Mones
He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.
~ Nikki Gemmell
I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.
~ Nikolai Gogol
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
~ Noel Coward
Then the Warden said, "Do you have anything you'd like to say?" and Gary looked up at the ceiling and hesitated, then said, "Let's do it." That was it.
~ Norman Mailer
Turgut, s?k?nt?l? oldu?u zamanlar sorulara cevap vermez, bu kartlardan birini uzat?rd?: Daha gelmedi Bir de kantine bak Bugün yeni f?kra yok Ben ne bileyim ulan (en çok kullan?lan kart)
~ Unknown
Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.
~ Osamu Dazai
Is this what all you refined gentlemen are like—wishing and pining and never acting?
~ Osamu Dazai
Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision (on Dwight D. Eisenhower).
~ Oscar Levant
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
~ Oscar Levant
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
~ Oscar Wilde
And Sam—what did he do? He obeyed her, I should like to be sorry for him. But obedience was not a lover's part here. He hesitated, the golden moment hung hovering, the conductor cried "All aboard!" the train went, and there on the platform stood obedient Sam, with his golden moment gone like a butterfly.
~ Owen Wister
I don't know. Sometimes, I look at Helen. And she's a nice girl and all that. She's pretty. But I feel I'm missing something. I look at Helen, I say: "I must have felt something special to marry this girl.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
hesitated, knowing that he was talking about
~ Pam Jenoff
Kelly gazed at her brother who lounged against the door, looking every inch the suave, careless player he pretended to be. She hesitated, not knowing how to answer. Finally, she said, "Yes." The answer fit her mood and the situation.
~ Unknown
Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey)
~ Patricia Briggs
Like a flytrap," Ben said, hesitating before he entered the foyer. "You know—open maw to sucker the flies inside." "Thanks for that," I said, and he grinned, though he didn't look any less spooked.
~ Patricia Briggs
He didn't want to go and look. But at the same time, a part of him wanted to look more than anything.
~ Patrick Ness
He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. "Have you been drinking?" The question was more curious than accusatory. "No," Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. "I've been tasting," Bast said, emphasizing the word. "Tasting comes before drinking.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Is this..." Chronicler hesitated, looking around. "Are we in Newarre?" Kote nodded. "You are, in fact, in the middle of Newarre.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Out with it," Kote said finally. "What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Kote was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did.
~ Patrick Rothfuss