“ We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well — but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity… ”
- Shirley Hazzard- Copy
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