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“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.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.”

Needs Important States Problem Government School Attitude Reader Models Terrific Reluctant State Government School System

Author:James Patterson

“It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.”

Knows Years Vulnerable Reluctant

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.”

People Thinking Knows Want Kind Sometimes Reason Opinion Titles Queens Frustrating Reluctant Protocol Formality

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.”

Use Names Secret Reluctant

Author:Sally Ride

“I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.”

Reading Deals Lord Cases Reader Rings Reluctant Love Of Reading

Author:Rick Riordan

“Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.”

Needs Believe Stills Two States Party Solutions Majority Israel Determined Conclusion Palestinian Reluctant

Author:Charles Schumer

“I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.”

Want Whole Hate Sex Talking I Hate Symbols Bulls Underwear Reluctant Sex Symbol

Author:Ben Affleck

“The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.”

Ifs Trying Sound Significance Reluctant Connotation Downgrading

Author:Francis Collins

“(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.”

People Mean Ideas Real Self Accepting Self Esteem Huge Ego Importance Difficulty Terror Real Life Enormous Esteem Acquire Tied Reluctant Being Wrong

Book:PO: a device for successful thinking

Source: PO: a device for successful thinking

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”

Life Inspirational Purpose Self Esteem Lifetime Obligation Being True Fulfillment Live By Reluctant Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Messiah Seagull Jonathan Livingston Seagull Livingston Seagull Jonathan Seagull

Author:Richard Bach

“Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.”

Ifs Life Lying Spirituality Names Waiting Views Forever Invisible Hostile Deaf Fullness Deep Down Reluctant Splendor Right Words

Book:I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings

Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings

“What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.”

Seems Salvation Fabric Reluctant

Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.”

“I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.”

Want Needs Kind May Said Two Different Home Light Beautiful Night Youth Bed Late Different Kinds Reluctant Very Beautiful Waiter Cafes

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”

Spiritual Ego Essence Familiar Rely Reluctant Essence Of Life

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club”

Source: Dave Barry Turns Forty

“Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.”

Way Mind Wells Stills Heaven Water Memories Tea Bombs Carpet Reluctant Bombing Puddles Hammered

Author:Arundhati Roy

“...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.”

World Believe Humans Hard Hate Human Beings Laughing Incapable Reluctant Mother Night

Book:Mother Night: A Novel

Source: Mother Night: A Novel

“I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)”

Causes Attention Scene Skills Crosses Males Attractive Acquire Reluctant Unwanted Attractive Woman

Author:Sandra Brown

“Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.”

Giving Feels Sometimes Dream Reality Next Waiting Promise Ghost Waking Surroundings Manipulate Reluctant Residual

Author:Craig Thompson

“It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.' Suddenly ashamed of my conspicuous poverty, I lowered my eyes. But Scatha placed a hand beneath my chin and raised my head. 'Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my Reluctant Warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave.”

Men World Hands Eye Given Loses Wealth Poor Poverty Masters Losing Gold Slave Raised Accomplish Warrior Ashamed Reluctant Chins Poor Man

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“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.”

Giving Humans Today Atheism Stage Evolution Giving Up Smart Atheist Positive Atheism Reluctant Human Intelligence

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s.”

Source: World's Fair: A Novel

“Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries.”

May Ends Seems Next Father Born My Own Views Cases Stage Son Directors Males Graves Funeral Reluctant

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.”

People Wells Has Beens Stills Certain Given Research Illusion Wings Burden Decades Shoulders Load Worn Uncertain Reflecting Reluctant

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

“Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.”

“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”

Persons Natural Effort Activity Skills Demand Interaction Feedback Enjoyable Reluctant

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."”

Writing Mean Persons Sometimes Stories Reality Used Can Do Effort Fiction Influence Listening Guidance Leap Deliberate Reluctant Doubtful Listen To Me Assertive Writing Stories Willfulness

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.”

May Dream Given Swim Swimming Reluctant Messiah Hopes And Dreams Dismayed Visions And Dreams Inspirational Dream Hopes Dreams Keep Dreaming Make A Wish

Author:Richard Bach

“When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.”

Sometimes Order Accepting Willing Needed I Realized Reluctant Afraid Of Failure

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?”

Giving Firsts Found Air Missing Response Flats About Yourself Autobiography Polite Reluctant Holmes Grinning Inattention

Author:Laurie R. King

“I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.”

People World Believe Two Enough Found I Believe Lovers Connections Strikes Fortunate Settling Reluctant

Book:Priceless: A Novel

Source: Priceless: A Novel

“The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.”

Thinking Hate Views One Thing Air Majority Climate Ugly Decent Controversial Reluctant Noisy Intimidation Thinking Alike

Author:Edward Abbey

“I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.”

“There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.”

Knows Said Facts Virtue Listening Storyteller Reluctant Diving Diving Deep

Book:The Wolf Gift

Source: The Wolf Gift

“Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.”

Men Way Mean Ends Sometimes Choices Knowing Saving Reluctant Crossroads Wrong Choices

Book:11/22/63: A Novel

Source: 11/22/63: A Novel

“Have McNab take the edge if you need one. Can he handle bad cop?" "He does it really well during personal role-playing games when I'm the reluctant witness.”

Ifs Needs Wells Doe Games Roles Edges Handle Witness Cop Reluctant Playing Games Role Playing

Author:Nora Roberts

“This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No." "You don't live in a crypt and you can't turn into a bat, but you have to have an invitation to enter a house?" Abby hissed. A reluctant amusement softened the flat eyes. "You wanted me to be vampirish." "Not when it's inconvenient.”

I Can Home Eye Wanted Turns House Flats Bats Amusement Invitations Reluctant Inconvenient Heads Up Abby

Book:When Darkness Comes

Source: When Darkness Comes

“So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.”

People Said Feet Reluctant Brag

Author:Daniel Handler

“One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It's as if we've divided the world into "those who offer help" and "those who need help." The truth is that we are both.”

Ifs World Needs Helping Hands Willing Truth Is Offers Connections Importance Barriers Divided Reach Out Reluctant Helping Hand Need Help

Author:Brené Brown

“Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—”

Knows Ends Home Remember Lips Reactions Hello Reluctant Bye Remember You Remembers You Good Bye Saying Good Bye Quiver

Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.”

Men Suffering Freedom Democracy Fool Clever Reluctant Clever Man

Author:Ivan Krylov

“I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner”

Politics Peers Persistent Reluctant Commoners

Author:Tony Benn

“Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.”

Men Mean War States Politics Money Citizens Taxes Raises Including Libertarian Combat Anti War Antiwar Reluctant

Book:Roads from Past to Future

Source: Roads from Past to Future

“Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.”

Might Change Standards Comforting Reluctant Inertia Standards Of Living High Standards

Author:Deepak Chopra

“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.”

“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”

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