Reluctant Quotes - Page 6

• It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

  James Stewart

  Country, Fighting, People

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• He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

  Walter Winchell

  Stones, Firsts, Praise

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• I've been very reluctant on the Twitter front. But I do Instagram now, so I'm slowly coming around. I'm quite a private person, so much of what I do for my job means that I have to be quite public so I'm just nervous about everything being public. I might turn around. Three years ago, I was against all social media but I actually really enjoy Instagram now. Who knows? I never say never!

  Jeremy Irvine

  Jobs, Mean, Media

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

  James L. Buckley

  Self, Media, Political

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• When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

  Lee Grant

  Journey, African American, Directors

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• Your wealth maybe hiding right behind the very thing you are reluctant to do.

  Joe Vitale

  Wealth, Hiding, Behinds

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• It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

  Charles Williams

  Men, Forgiving, Easier

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Image of the City and Other Essays”, p.141, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If you know what you got and like it, be reluctant to leave it.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Knows, Ifs

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• One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Memorable, Reader

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• Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

  Margot Livesey

  Hero, Writing, Heart

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• There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

  Anne Rice

  Diving Deep, Listening, Facts

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.544, Random House

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• I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

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• The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Thinking, Air

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• I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, War, Struggle

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• Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.

  Charles Tilly

  War, Moving, Mean

  Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Night, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• ...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Years, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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• Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to have been right all along-and he deserves great credit for having been so reluctant to become involved when the energy-rich chemical intermediates began to be so fashionable. This reminds me of the aphorism: 'The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer'.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Science, Simple, Views

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• France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

  Christine Lagarde

  Agriculture, Would Be, Unions

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• At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure."

  Naomi Oreskes

  Strong, Sides, Scientist

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• This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No." "You don't live in a crypt and you can't turn into a bat, but you have to have an invitation to enter a house?" Abby hissed. A reluctant amusement softened the flat eyes. "You wanted me to be vampirish." "Not when it's inconvenient.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Home, Eye, House

  Alexandra Ivy (2012). “When Darkness Comes”, p.225, Zebra Books

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• So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

  Daniel Handler

  Feet, People, Said

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• Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Names, Giving

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Autism, Community, Reason Why

  "16 Things Jenny McCarthy Has Actually Said" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

  Robert Breault

  Fall, Sleep, Insomnia

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