#reluctance

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#bodies #bundle #early #every #every night

You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white. ↗

— Matt Robinson

#also #ambiguity #because #black #black or white

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#assurance #believed #bravery #could #current

Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental. ↗

— Dick Powell

#being #city #detrimental #environment #feeling

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#attentive #been #british #city #europe

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#drunkard #executives #i #illumination #increasing

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. ↗

— Jean Racine

#difficult #easy #nothing #reluctance #you

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#much #nothing #receive #reluctance #which

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

— Gustav Mahler

#great #higher #i #leave #reach