Reluctant Quotes

212 quotes by 197 authors

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist. — Michele Bachmann
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want… — Ben Affleck
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really… — Helena Bonham Carter
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even… — Diablo Cody
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open. — Paulo Coelho
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a… — Corazon Aquino
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,… — C.S. Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. — C.S. Lewis
Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming… — John F Walvoord
Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves. — Robert Breault
The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals. — Jenny McCarthy
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the… — Victor Hugo
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught. — Brooks Atkinson
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort… — Charles Tilly
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca the Younger
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal… — Ellen Page
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to… — Peter D. Mitchell
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the… — Naomi Oreskes
Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's… — Cecil Arthur Lewis
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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