#reluctant

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#example #for example #good #here #missing

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

#fatal #forgive #forgiven #god #men

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor. ↗

— Lee Grant

#african #african american #ahead #allowing #american

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide. ↗

— Pat Brown

#label #murder #police #possible #reluctant

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#about #being #british #british government #clarification

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#because #i #particular #people #question

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#into #knowledge #lover #reluctant #shallow

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#collaborative #dig #everyone #feel #get

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

— Davy Jones

#how #i #interpret #interviews #misleading

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

#life