Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most… — Plato Copy Share Image
Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the… — Edwin A. Locke Copy Share Image
I was reluctant to talk about my kids on the blog. I kept telling myself, "People aren't coming here for stories about… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by… — Chris Elliott Copy Share Image
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime,… — Patrick McGrath Copy Share Image
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know?… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very… — Dan Abrams Copy Share Image
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
I've been offered all the reality TV shows but have turned them down. If I did it as 'Johnny,' there'd be no… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
But I can't stress enough how much talking helps. I was so reluctant at first; I didn't think it would help. But… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The issue we are reluctant to talk about is even more sensitive than condoms. The issue - and I will try to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
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