Quotes About Hesitation

#1. He kissed me back. It lasted just a moment, but he kissed me back, right away, without hesitation, as though we'd always been doing it.

Morgan Matson

#2. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#3. I love watching her, watching her uncertainty and her hesitation. And her attempts at denying what we both know she's feeling. Teasing her is going to be so much fun. Hot, sweet, sexy, delicious fun.

M. Leighton

#4. We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

William Temple

#5. Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#6. I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Fred Hoyle

#7. I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

Andrew Motion

#8. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.

Olivia Sudjic

#9. Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

Tony Hawk

#10. The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected.

Algernon Blackwood

#11. His lips covered hers and turned potent and possessive. His mouth tasted of berries, honey, and a tang of whisky. It was a combination a woman could succumb to without a moment's hesitation - succumb to and be seduced by.

Vonnie Davis

#12. David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

Richard Attenborough

#13. Without hesitation, Anita, standing in the middle of the busy restaurant, unzipped her jeans and pealed them off...

Michael Braccia

#14. We become angels when we fly with the wings of love. We can reach any destination and touch any heart without any hesitation.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. Keep your sword sheathed as long as you can, but once it is unsheathed, use it without hesitation.

Lian Hearn

#16. Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Thomas Aquinas

#17. I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

Edward Weston

#18. I watch her, amazed how my body does what she tells it to without hesitation and it's in this moment I realize, Olivia isn't mine ... I'm hers.

Skyla Madi

#19. Kelsey breathed in deeply. "He asked me to stay."
"Here?"
"Yes."
"For how long?"
"Until ... until I want to leave, I guess. But he doesn't want me to go yet, and ... I'm thinking of
accepting the offer."
"Now he sounds like he's proposing marriag

Maisey Yates

#20. Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Norman MacCaig

#21. The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

Bella Forrest

#22. We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Blaise Pascal

#23. I don't have any hesitation saying I've traveled more miles than any human being who ever lived. I've been doing it for 60 years.

Gary Player

#24. There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

John Buford

#25. Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won't keep misery away from you And will not set you free.

Edith Hahn Beer

#26. Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

P.G. Wodehouse

#28. There was no hiding the fact that they were in a predicament, but there was no hesitation to mention failings that might reflect poorly on any department. That made it easier for the captain to assess the situation. He doubted a similar meeting aboard his own ship would have progressed as well,

Taylor Anderson

#29. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Franz Kafka

#30. To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

Laura Kreitzer

#31. Will ye come with me?" he whispered.
And she answered without hesitation. "Yes, please.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#32. Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle ... But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.

Michael Ondaatje

#33. If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.

Blaise Pascal

#34. In his case, what had been hardness became cruelty, while a tendency to bluff became plain dishonesty. He often lied without hesitation and assumed that others lied to him.

William L. Shirer

#35. Without hesitation, each time, my answer was our standing with Hispanics and Latinos. We must do a better job of reaching out to these communities and demonstrate to them that our party is aligned with the aspirations Hispanics have for their families and for America.

Kevin Madden

#36. Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.

Melissa McPhail

#37. I'm willing to lose some sleep if it comes to that. I can't think of the last time I shared the company of a woman who speaks her mind firmly and without hesitation. Your kind are in short supply these days.

Patrick Rothfuss

#38. My hesitation to send Lotus to public school was not based on the caliber of the teachers. It stemmed from the very nature of conventional education.

Cari Donaldson

#39. We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

Sadao Araki

#40. Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Seneca The Younger

#41. This next song goes out to the girl who shredded my heart without hesitation back in high school. It's called Ball Busting Bitch, and Laine this one's for you.

Michelle A. Valentine

#42. Hesitation was fatal. Choose.

Robert Galbraith

#43. I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

Art Buchwald

#44. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

#45. When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

Chris Christie

#46. They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

Jean Charest

#47. Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

Chogyam Trungpa

#48. If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.

T.F. Hodge

#49. Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements ... are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

Alexander Hamilton

#50. Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.

Himmilicious

#51. Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation;

Jane Austen

#52. You got the good heart. Underneath all the other stuff. Good heart is eighty-five percent of everything in life.' ...
'What is the other fifteen percent?' Nat said. 'Just out of curiosity?'
'Politeness,' Mr. Jones said without hesitation. 'And keeping a level head.

Michael Chabon

#53. Given a choice between my life and yours, I will choose mine. Every time. Without hesitation.

Rae Carson

#54. Think about it if you must, but remember: If something is worth pursuing, you shouldn't waste time. Situations change faster than you can split an orcish skull, and a moment's hesitation could cost you your chance.

Markus Heitz

#55. Locke threw himself at Father Chains, and the man, without hesitation, scooped him up and held him, patting his back until his racking sobs quieted down.

Scott Lynch

#56. Wounded can inflict the most painful wounds without hesitation.

Bella Forrest

#57. Then why'd you do it?"
"Jealousy," she said without hesitation. "It always comes down to something crude. Don't kid yourself, Keating. It's human nature.

Leah Raeder

#58. Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass.
"Wow. Where have you two been all my life?"
Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor.
"Walking hand in hand with you. Haven't you noticed?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#59. If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation

Renae A. Sauter

#60. But I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation.

Etgar Keret

#61. To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

#62. The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it's the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.

Kenneth Eade

#63. What about ... Cinder?" There was a hesitation, and she could tell they were doubtful about the name. She lifted her chin and explained, "It's an unassuming name, but also ... powerful. Because of where she came from. She survived that fire. She was reborn from the cinders." They

Marissa Meyer

#64. She loved at light-speed. No hesitation. No regrets. No conditions. No reservations. While he hoarded his chips and held a part of himself back, she went all in. Every time.

Blake Crouch

#65. The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.

Liu Cixin

#66. Nope,' Jamie said without hesitation, which is how I knew he was lying. But I understood why. Sometimes lies are easier to believe.

Michelle Hodkin

#67. Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.

Vivek Shanbhag

#68. Hesitation is a cruel taskmaster; it breeds weakness the same way filth breeds germs.

Ray Dacolias

#69. Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt

#70. In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

Theodore Roosevelt

#71. We are accustomed to take progress for granted: to assume without hesitation that the changes which have happened during the last hundred years were unquestionably for the better, and that further changes for the better are sure to follow indefinitely.

Bertrand Russell

#72. I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!

Ivan Turgenev

#73. My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind ... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Brian Johnson

#74. Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief - all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man ... that it's better to hang oneself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#75. If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

Els Borst

#76. On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#77. I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

Giacomo Puccini

#78. Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

Patrick Swayze

#79. I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I can tell you in my heart, I know - I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president's office, close the door, and share my heart.

Mike Pence

#80. I want a thousand things for my children, and I ask without hesitation, but I want nothing more than that God would be glorified. Life is just a breath. All that will matter forever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through their lives and ours.

Beth Moore

#81. If I had it to do over, I'd vote for Obama without hesitation. I'm very thankful that McCain and Palin aren't in office.

Charles Foster Johnson

#82. It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn't resist pulling - despite knowing it could all unravel around me.
"Do you love me?" I ask.
In your hesitation I found my answer.

Lang Leav

#83. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.

David Livingstone

#84. The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

Joe Biden

#85. The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but

Amor Towles

#86. Can I ask you a question? I swear it's not about heaven."
Joi laughs. "Shoot."
"Why do you love me?" I ask her.
"Because you love me back," she says without hesitation.
"You have no idea how much," I tell her.
"Yes, I do," she says.

Kirsten Miller

#87. True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.

Debasish Mridha

#88. Without hesitation but with a sense of entitlement, he lifted my hand to his lips. He was gentlemen-like in every way ... I don't know why I wondered if it was an act or for real.

Laura Albright

#89. The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around like rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.

Anne Morris

#90. Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively.

Simon Soloveychik

#91. All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

Marquis De Lafayette

#92. Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#93. There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Juliet Stevenson

#94. So I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.

Jacques Ellul

#95. My lord," came Daisy's anxious voice, delaying him briefly. "You will find her, won't you?" "Yes," he said without hesitation. "And then I'm going to strangle her.

Lisa Kleypas

#96. When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel

T.F. Hodge

#97. His gentleman's hesitation in the car earlier is gone, replaced with a confidence that provokes.

K.A. Tucker

#98. If she could have achieved suicide, simply by willing it, she would have done it without hesitation.

J.K. Rowling

#99. Women who drove like badasses, threw punches without hesitation, and filled out a pair of jeans while they did it were my ultimate type. Sexy.

Cambria Hebert

#100. Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway,