Tentative Quotes
55 quotes by 53 authors
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When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer,…
— Sarah Dessen
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Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of…
— Ellen Hopkins
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But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger.…
— Suzanne Collins
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Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a…
— Lauren Oliver
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I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty.…
— Diana Gabaldon
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She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head…
— Isaac Marion
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... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the…
— Mortimer Adler
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Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem,…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to…
— Peter De Vries
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It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring…
— William Faulkner
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Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative…
— Don Kardong
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Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.
— Jeb Bush
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Wake up everyday and tell yourself I will do it. Banish the I cant, I wish, and the I shouldve.You can turn tentative steps into…
— DrAnil Kr Sinha
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Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful,…
— Matt Groening
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The number of people trafficked in a year around the world is estimated to be a staggering 2.4 million! And, according to Marina Leabsch, an…
— T Joseph Benziger
Who Wrote These Tentative Quotes
53 authors contributed a total of 55 Tentative Quotes, led by these top contributors: