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
“Do not be reluctant to value yourself highly, for others do so. Nor should you hesitate to aspire to any goal, because… — Noah Gordon 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
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I was never reluctant to play this character; the only thing I was scared of was that Bua might be only subjected… — Upasana Singh Copy Share Image
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens... — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated.… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
I'm a very reluctant frontman. I've seen reviews where they talk about my strong presence on stage, but it's nothing I do.… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C. S. Lewis 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
I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals. — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although… — Alex Parks 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
When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's… — Christine Lagarde 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
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
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti),… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
“The wizard stirs, opens his eyes, and looks at the reluctant boy. “Oh, you’ll get your heart broken,” he says. “Is that… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
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