Reluctant Quotations

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Many investors are reluctant to trade actively before the central bank starts its two-day meeting Wednesday.

Many times you have witnesses who are reluctant to come forward.

We needed guys to make plays down the stretch. We needed guys to pass the ball. (Webber) is our veteran leader, and that's why I was so reluctant to take him out in the second half.

We're reluctant to put any numbers in precisely because it has to be negotiated.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

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.

There is a push to make boards more diverse but people without large corporate salaries, such as academics, would be reluctant to become directors without guaranteed payment.

He was reluctant to integrate. And he wasn't alone.

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.