#reluctant

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bit #change #definitely #grow #grow up

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bed #before #begins #book #characters

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#although #am #archetypes #correct #doubt

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#dole #ethic #go #healthy #reluctant

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own. ↗

— Jay Leno

#action #against #coming #congress #guy

A dismal omen: ...this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue. ↗

— Kathleen Maher

#reluctant-cult-leader #age

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

#embarked #equally #indeed #make #martial

I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience. ↗

— Oliver Neubert

#fantasy #first-love #flying #life-skills #middle-grade

(Via Malcolm)"...For the moment, I have this incredible gift...It just happened. I bend, whisper, sing, shout—and a radiant light surrounds and then emanates from people. ↗

— Kathleen Maher

#inspirational #reluctant #inspirational

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#go #internet #lives #more #much