Hesitant Quotes

• 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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• Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

  Bob Crosby

  Appreciation, Accepting, Form

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

  Jim Rohn

  Steps, Wells

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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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• Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Excellence, Tense

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• Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Jobs, Equal Pay, Qualified

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• In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.

  Zach Braff

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Doubt

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

  Zhuangzi

  Confused, Skills, Differences

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• A lot of times, guys are just out there playing and they'll just go and get you. I don't really think they're thinking about the helmet-to-helmet contact. You'll probably see a lot of players more hesitant before they make their hits.

  Andre Johnson

  Player, Thinking, Guy

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• I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Color, Opposites

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• I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

  Lucy Hale

  Ideas, Singing, Trying

  "We Shine the Spotlight on PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Star Lucy Hale". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. January 8, 2013.

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