We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: fear life hope hesitation tragedy
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. WodehouseTags: humor doubt shakespeare hesitation hamlet jeeves
If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything,
faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.
Tags: faith hesitation understanding conftront emptiness-in-heart
Doubt is a creature within the air.
It grows when someone hesitates.
Tags: truth doubt hesitation spirit ghost creature
Did you know that when we were kids Cass used to tell me your stories? She used to laugh at you. Not in a mean way, but in the way that Cass used to laugh at everything before...." He gestures around us at our world now.
I shake my head. "I thought Cass never liked my stories. Never remembered them."
"Oh yes, I would beg her to tell me if she had new stories from you."
"Why didn't you ask me yourself?" I whisper.
"Because you were Harry's," he responds.
"Not always."
"Yes, always," he says. "Always in his eyes," he adds in a softer tone.
Tags: love hesitation
Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.
Sarah DessenTags: kiss hesitation risk anticipation
George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.
Mette Ivie HarrisonTags: hesitation sympathy comfort embarrassment undone
The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.
J.K. RowlingTags: hesitation loathe
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
Oscar WildeTags: procrastination hesitation
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 NoelTags: hesitation moving-forward forgetting-the-past
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