hesitations Quotes

If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution.

“I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.”

“Ma, I don’t want to grow old. Why’s everybody pushing me so?”

“Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also.”

“I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist.”

“A half-second’s more hesitation, and I would have been the one bleeding out on the floor. They turned out to be Chechens, Muslims apparently recruited for a holy war against the West. (We found their passports after searching the house.)”

″‘Let me go,’ I demanded, though it lacked punch. Being this close to Trace was no good for me, and I knew that, but the room was definitely spinning now and I wasn’t even sure I could stand upright anymore.

“You can be a fool for five minutes if you ask a question. However, you are a fool for a lifetime if you hesitate to ask a question.”

“Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance.”

“He had never disobeyed the order to hide. Even as a toddler, barely able to walk in the backyard’s tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother’s voice. But on this day, the day they began taking the woods away, he hesitated.”

“We don’t just hesitate to rethink our answers. We hesitate at the very idea of rethinking.”

Mr. Wopsle hesitated, and we all began to conceive rather a poor opinion of him.