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The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root

If you know what you got and like it, be reluctant to leave it. — Johnny Hunt

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things. — Sally Ride

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought. — Nina Simone

Back (thank god for office accessorizing, the last playground of the reluctant adult). — Jonathan Tropper

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. — Stewart Udall

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame. — Samuel Reshevsky

We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success. — Stephen Bungay

Keating had the appearance of a man who was reluctant to say what he had to say — James Runcie

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it. — Roz Chast

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men. — Charles Williams

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo. — Kristin Linklater

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist. — Michele Bachmann

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.' — Evangeline Lilly

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class. — Matt De La Pena

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power. — Dan B. Allender

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. — Frantz Fanon

Are you hurt? asked Sergeant Burns, with reluctant professional solicitude. — Charlaine Harris

The staircase was deserted - the higher up the building the more reluctant were the residents to use the stairs, as if this in some way demeaned them. — J.G. Ballard

Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. — Hanif Kureishi

the reluctant curve of his smile, — Penny Reid

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

He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again. — Alan Paton

I am daily learning
To be the reluctant guardian of your memories
There was light in those eyes; I miss that — Richard L. Ratliff

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one. — Brian Eno

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming. — Will Ferrell

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra

So you're reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It's like having feet. It's nothing to brag about. — Lemony Snicket

A reluctant smile found her face. Well, we've already established that you can breathe for me. — Lauren Kate

Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth
of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time? — William Stafford

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner — Tony Benn

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background. — Ren Ng

Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world? — Maggie O'Farrell

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. — Eric Hoffer

They command a fascination, however reluctant, that borders on psychic masturbation. — Hunter S. Thompson

If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships. — Kate Hudson

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another. — Mason Cooley

It's a slow process; he always seems reluctant to let her go and I think she likes to savor that as much as possible. — Courtney Summers

The misty morning crawleth grey from dusk to the reluctant day. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. — Barbara Park

The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals. — Jenny McCarthy

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new. — Ariel Gore

A dismal omen: ... this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue. — Kathleen Maher

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

The reluctant hero is always fun to play. — David Giuntoli

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide. — Pat Brown

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism? — Jimmy Stewart

Watching him walk away, she considered his laconic attitude and reluctant decency, and she thought she might be crushing on him just a little. Two — Thea Harrison

I didn't really want to die; I just wasn't ready to live. I was merely surviving ... one reluctant heartbeat at a time. — Wendi Cassel

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient. — Mason Cooley

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear. — Tess Gerritsen

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian. — Rex Harrison

Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo Of Alexandria

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable. — George Wendt

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years. — Andy Goldsworthy

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. — Suzanne Collins

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe. — Caroline Myss

I'm definitely a bit of Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up ... part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever. — Helena Bonham Carter

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do. — David Ogilvy

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given. — Lucian

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change. — Nick Nolte

You came out kicking and screaming, reluctant as hell to leave, and you spent the rest of your life trying to get back in. — Donald O'Donovan

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce. — Mason Cooley

The things you're most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others — Rick Warren

The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender. — Tibullus

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh. — Mark Twain

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth. — Anne Rice

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing. — Julianne Moore

Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil. — Charles Dickens

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much. — Timothy West

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate. — Alanis Morissette

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Sladek

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. — Charles Dickens

The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.) — Edgar Allan Poe

I stared at the front door as reluctant to get out of the car as Kyle was to let me leave. — Kelly Oram

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning. — Jojo Moyes

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. — Don DeLillo

Women are also more reluctant to apply for promotions even when deserved, often believing that good job performance will naturally lead to rewards.8 — Sheryl Sandberg

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens ... — Charles Tilly

There is no such thing as a reluctant star. — George Michael

One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading. — Neil Gaiman

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. — Davy Jones

Challenging mass incarceration requires something civil rights advocates have long been reluctant to do: advocacy on behalf of criminals. Even — Michelle Alexander

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social. — Joseph Wood Krutch

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it. — Peter Block

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them. — Nathaniel Branden

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom. — Edmund White

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls! — Charles M. Schwab

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed. — Giorgio Moroder

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels. — Andrew Stanton

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your wealth maybe hiding right behind the very thing you are reluctant to do. — Joe Vitale