Reluctant Quotes · Page 4

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

— Paul Gilbert

I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

— Maya Angelou

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

— Evangeline Lilly

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

— Kristin Linklater

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

— Michele Bachmann

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

— Dan B. Allender

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

— V V Brown

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

— Kate Hudson

I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be…

— Frederick Buechner

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable…

— Bob Graham

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

— Deepak Chopra

I felt reluctant accepting the very lucrative and easy life Hollywood had offered me. All of it planted a seed: If I…

— Sterling Hayden

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are…

— Frank Herbert

I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot,…

— Alexander Dolgun

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or…

— Ann Bridge

“(Via Malcolm)"...For the moment, I have this incredible gift...It just happened. I bend, whisper, sing, shout—and a radiant light surrounds and then…

— Kathleen Maher

“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot…

— Shirley Hazzard

At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite…

— Cynthia Kadohata

I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to…

— Bill Watterson

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the…

— Diablo Cody

I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of…

— Napoleon Hill

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…

— Jeremy Irvine

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

— Ray Bradbury

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

— George Wendt

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

— Andrew Stanton

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

— Davy Jones

I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

— John I. Jenkins

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

— Christopher Hitchens

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

— David Ogilvy

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to…

— Jennifer Westfeldt

People who commit crimes are generally reluctant to tell on themselves.

— Jason Whitlock

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

— Rex Harrison

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

— Brian Tracy

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

— Robert Breault

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

— Nina Simone

“I stared at the front door as reluctant to get out of the car as Kyle was to let me leave.”

— Kelly Oram

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein