It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.” — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone. — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.' — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. — Clifford D. Simak 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
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
“No,” he admitted, and my instincts sang out at his reluctance. “That’s across the hall.” Crutch swinging, I started for the door,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up… — Ogden Nash 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
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
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
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
It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
On a Tuesday night they were wed, And by Friday they were dead. And they buried them in the churchyard side by… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to… — Anita Rau Badami 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
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
“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
Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that. — Christopher Shays Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw 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
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. — Isaac Asimov 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
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on… — James M. Barrie 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
There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion… — John Cameron Mitchell 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
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
