(127 quotes found)
“Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.”
Dale E. Turner
“He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.”
Frantz Fanon
“You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.”
Corazon Aquino
“I have been reluctant to publicly castigate an administration, but I think this particular administration has departed from all previous presidents, ... Our Endangered Values.”
Jimmy Carter
“Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.”
Charles Dickens
“There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.”
William Lyon Phelps
“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”
Joseph Addison
“We're not dying to get into the water business. In fact, we got into it kind of reluctantly with Beverly Beach. To look out for the long-term interests of the county, we feel we need a seat at the table.”
Carl Laundrie
“Anglicans typically have a reluctance to talk about money, to think that money is part of Christian life. The view is that if we're able to balance the budget then we've achieved our objective. It's a question of trying to change attitudes. Stewardship is a way of life, each of us has a need to donate our time, talent, and treasure and we should not be frightened.”
Canon Geoff Jackson
“Some communities impose the fee before setting the terms of the ordinance. Our council is reluctant to do it without having the ordinance in place.”
Brent Jensen
