Hesitant Quotes

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

Bob Crosby

Appreciation, Accepting, Form

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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Patricia Schroeder

Use

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I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.

Robbie Williams

Morning, Lazy, World

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I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

Ashleigh Banfield

War, Fighting, Courageous

"Even Paranoids Have Enemies" by Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2007.

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It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

Ashley Judd

Race, Firsts, Speak

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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

J. M. Coetzee

Trying, Dubious, Answers

Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Vinton Cerf

Careers, Career Change, Majors

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Just go on..and faith will soon return.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Math, Goes On, Return

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The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

Peter Ho Davies

Moving, Empathy, Political

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He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could you learn to be fond of me?" he asked. "With enough time?" She looked at him in surprise. It was the first time in all their acquaintance that she'd heard him sound the least bit hesitant. "I don't need to learn anything," she said, before she thought better of it.

Lynn Kurland

Sound, Enough Time, Needs

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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Uplifting, Courage, Heart

Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

Jim Rohn

Steps, Wells

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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Walter Dean Myers

War, Sacrifice, People

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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Love Is, Men, Broken

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You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Clint Eastwood

Feels, Ifs

"'I figured I'd retire gradually, just ride off into the sunset ...'". Interview with Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2007.

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It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.

Chris Hegedus

Real, Support, Stories

"Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

January Jones

Mom, Mammals, Placenta

"January Jones: Placenta Capsules Are ‘Not Witch-Crafty!’", celebritybabies.people.com. March 23, 2012.

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To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Max Lucado

Spiritual, Grace, Steps

Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.610, Thomas Nelson Inc

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So, will his new gun laws - aimed primarily at law-abiding firearms owners - reduce the crime rate even further? Rock is hesitant to give a conclusive answer: "I think it will help. (But) I don't want to overstate it. I don't want to give any guarantees."

Allan Rock

Gun, Thinking, Rocks

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Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

Saint Augustine

Father, Watches, Steps

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I am not a hesitant bull, I'm a Pamplona bull.

Jim Cramer

Bulls

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Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

Michel Foucault

Confused, Expression, Breathe

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And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug. Then he jumped, chair swiveling so fast I nearly went flying. I heard footsteps in the hall and I scrambled off his lap just as Simon swung in, breathing heavily, like he'd come running.

Kelley Armstrong

Running, Dad, Heart

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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Dalai Lama

Clever, Humility, Pride

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