Quotation Explorer - 'Reluctant'

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it. - David Foster Wallace
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. - Reinhold Niebuhr
The mind which is reluctant to change or alter is "ME and I". The mind which is ready to get empty and altered is "BUDDHA". - Aditya Ajmera
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. - Ruth Hurmence Green
Sex in the twenties is like a helicopter raring to take off vertically, but twenty years later, it is like a vintage plane roaring and racing to a reluctant take off! - rajuda
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. - Don DeLillo
We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero. - Josh Rose
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. - Philo of Alexandria
The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Reluctant readers aren't reluctant thinkers. - Melanie Crowder
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