There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
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In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into… — Raymond P. Shafer Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
“I wish you may profit by my experience. Alas, how much time have I lost and wasted, which, had I been wise—I… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City -… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything,… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
We live in a time when people are increasingly skittish about evangelism - Christians and non-Christians alike. People are suspicious of evangelism,… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I wasn’t sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
“warm. It was with a deep sense of reluctance that he made the long swim back to the shore, back to dry… — Susan Mac Nicol Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a reluctance on my part to promote myself as any kind of hero because the things I've had… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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“Writing too was a mighty consumer of energy, besides a task one often went to with reluctance - not solely on account… — Frank Sargeson Copy Share Image
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast… — Henry Laurens Copy Share Image
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
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