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  • The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

    Mistake   Long   Decision  
  • But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

    Pain   Years   Essence  
  • The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

    Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.231
  • When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

  • Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

    Sex   Opposites   Clothes  
    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

    Life   Hate   Thinking  
    Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media
  • The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.

    Sex   Honesty   Men  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

    Errors   Giving   Judging  
    "Craig v. Harney, 331 U.S. 367". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 19, 1947.
  • Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

    "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays".
  • This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.

    Order   Chinese   Trying  
    "Reflections on China, 1962-1972" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1979.
  • On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the funding before he was against it.

  • No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

    William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
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