I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is…

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius…

— Edward Gibbon

“It had always been impossible for me to write to him. Each time I would immediately become aware of the awkwardness of suddenly expressing…

— Thomas Bernhard

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

— Todd Barry

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

— Barbara Tuchman

There's a bit of a reluctance on my part to promote myself as any kind of hero because the things I've had to overcome…

— Faith Salie

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

— Kit Reed

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

— Ronald Reagan

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to…

— Colin Mochrie

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

— Steven Van Zandt

One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they…

— Paul Keating

“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.”

— Daniel Kahneman

In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront…

— William J. Duiker

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the…

— Joseph Campbell

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at…

— Patricia Highsmith