Reluctant Quotes - Page 11

• For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.

  J. J. C. Smart

  Atheist, Giving Up, Emotional

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• Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

  Philo

  Education, Learning, Curiosity

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• I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

  Jon Foreman

  Mouths

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• As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.322, Penguin

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• It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

  David Simon

  Cities, America, Criminals

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

  Berry Gordy

  Blue, White, People

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• It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Naughty, Water

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.107, Penguin

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• There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.

  James Patterson

  Attitude, School, Government

  "How to get your kid to be a fanatic reader". Interview With James Patterson, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2011.

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• People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Queens, Thinking, People

  "Queen Rania discusses her new book "The Sandwich Swap" with Oprah". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.queenrania.jo. April 23, 2010.

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• The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

  Brian Chesky

  People, Leader, Helpful

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• You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

  Saint Augustine

  Wings, People, Research

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.199

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• Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.

  Sebastian Junger

  Country, Jobs, War

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• The issue we are reluctant to talk about is even more sensitive than condoms. The issue - and I will try to be tasteful here - is that sometimes it seems like maybe the president of the United States is kind of dumb. If you get what I mean. What I mean is, I am not totally confident that the president would get what I mean, unless several aides explained it to him. And even then, he might forget.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mean, Issues

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• If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

  Kate Hudson

  Thinking, Chance, Ifs

  "Glamour's April 2013 Cover Star, Kate Hudson, Bares All: "I Don't Keep Any Secrets"". Interview with Mira Nair, www.glamour.com. March 5, 2013.

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• The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

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• I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short run, is to go to nuclear power. It's amazing to me that people who are so alarmed about global warming are so reluctant to adopt the obvious short-term solution - the bridge until the day when we have affordable renewable energy - of nuclear power.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Bridges, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

  Plato

  Government, Truth Is, States

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.21, University Press of America

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• If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Acknowledge, Terrified

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

  Ita Buttrose

  Women, Live Life, Past

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• There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job. . . . If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your selection, you'll be well advised to pass him over. He's not the man you need.

  Ira C. Eaker

  Leadership, Jobs, Real

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• It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

  Dan B. Allender

  Design, Religion, Use

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• A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

  Dan B. Allender

  Power, People, Leader

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.19, WaterBrook

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• The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Reading, Night

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• I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, New York, Book

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• I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.

  Ben Affleck

  Sex, Hate, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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