There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that. — Christopher Shays Copy Share Image
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. — Kazuo Ishiguro 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
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
Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to… — George Mason Copy Share Image
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to… — Jeff Stelling 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
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
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
Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
“I guessed that only at the last possible minute did the soul in a determined fashion flee the dying flesh. Who could… — Lorrie Moore 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
“I knew there’d be no coming back from this. When it happened, it happened not as I’d dreamed it would, but with… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my… — Richard E. Robbins 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
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -… — Hisham Melhem Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“If I had to name my disability, I would call it an unwillingness to fall. On the one hand, this is perfectly… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“It had always been impossible for me to write to him. Each time I would immediately become aware of the awkwardness of… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever. — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
