Reluctance Quotes

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

The effort we make in trying to get white people to let us alone or invest in us is looking pretty futile…. I am a reluctant separatist

I don't like to play live. And if I don't like to do it, why should I?

I was not desirous of shrinking of any duty, nor of failing in the least to do as I was commanded, but it was the first time in my life that I desired the grave.

England is a slow moving country, reluctant to change—deeply reluctant to change.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

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

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

I don't need much coaxing.

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

I'm too lazy to work out.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.

OK, I'm as lazy as the next guy. Full disclosure. And I often feel guilty about it.

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

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.