Reluctant Quotes · Page 3

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

— Johnny Hunt

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given

— Lucian

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

— J. D. McClatchy

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

— Will Ferrell

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

— Mason Cooley

“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”

— Bertrand Russell

“...he was reluctant to return to New York, a town less supportive of his sort of art.”

— Lindsay Pollock

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well.…

— Denis O'Hare

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither…

— George Bernard Shaw

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who…

— Brooks Atkinson

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people…

— Parminder Nagra

“This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than…

— Raymond Chen

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above…

— Philippa Perry

There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job. . . . If you find the need for…

— Ira C. Eaker

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But…

— Madonna Ciccone

Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies…

— Henci Goer

My dad, Winston, didn't say much. He was a very reluctant man. He came home from working at the foundry every day…

— Lenny Henry

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force;…

— Brendan I. Koerner

I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be…

— Frank Deford

Seems to me we move the furniture, the French come in later and put the doilies on top of it...It's a simple…

— Dennis Miller

Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in…

— Livy

I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that…

— Joan Lunden

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition,…

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Suzanne Collins

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

— Jason Alexander

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

— Peter Block

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

— Alison McGhee

“even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.”

— Edwin G. Burrows

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

— Pat Brown

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

— Sally Ride

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

— Roz Chast

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

— Brian Eno

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

— Dan B. Allender

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

— Mike Birbiglia

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

— Waverley Root

“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.”

— Neil Gaiman

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

— Don DeLillo

“And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy.”

— Walter Isaacson

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

— Edmund White