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Tag Name "Reluctant" (157)

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For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
William S. Burroughs
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It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.
Raymond Kelly
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At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.
Yoshi Wada
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Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.
Rex Harrison
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Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
Rick Warren
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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
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It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.
Samuel Reshevsky
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Stephen King
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Tacitus
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Terence
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The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.
Tibullus
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We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.
Tony Abbott
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The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.
Torbjorn Tannsjo
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Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.
Victor Davis Hanson
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He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.
Walter Winchell
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Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.
Philippa Perry
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You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.
Will Ferrell
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I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.
Rand Paul
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There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.
Corra May Harris
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I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.
Dan Abrams
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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
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It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.
Dan B. Allender
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I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
Alexander Dolgun
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