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Quotes About Hesitation

Steal me, she had said. I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
También esto le inquieta, porque no recuerda ninguna ocasión en su vida en que haya sido tan reacio a hacer algo que tan claramente desea hacer. Estoy cambiando, se dice
~ Paul Auster
He had to pause for his usual misgivings.
~ Unknown
Still, we may hesitate to accept an unpleasant reality because we feel that by accepting, we condone something that is intolerable. But this is not the case. As it says so eloquently in One Day at a Time in Al-Anon (ODAT), Acceptance does not mean submission to a degrading situation.
~ Unknown
The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.
~ Paul Valery
my doubt is loud,
~ Paula McLain
Beige is the color of indecision
~ Paula Scher
He watched her leave with mixed feelings. His heart wanted to trust her, but his head and his gut told him he couldn't.
~ Unknown
She felt as if she'd always been holding a part of herself back, saving it, and she had a terrible fear she would end up saving it forever. That she would die with whole parts of herself unused.
~ Penelope Williamson
I should have said the right thing just then, but I did not know what that would be, if such a thing existed, I did not think so, and those who said it did, knew nothing. So I said the first thing that came into my head. "Are you afraid?". I said.
~ Per Petterson
The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.
~ Unknown
He'd never made a move on her in those three weeks.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORDís compassion for them.
~ Genesis 19:16
“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
~ Exodus 4:10
The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the manís home.
~ Acts 11:12