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The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
— Waverley Root
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
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
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
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
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
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 Fourthof July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time? — William Stafford
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
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
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
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
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
Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
— Philo Of Alexandria
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[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
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
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
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnessesa 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
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
