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Dragging Quotes

Quotes on foot-dragging and reluctance

These dragging quotes call out slow action on important issues, describe the telltale sign of disliking your own work, and admit a fear of being pulled into scary movies. Browse our Feet collection.

I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

Quotes by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good...

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

Quotes by Victor Koo

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.

Quotes by Thomas P.M. Barnett

Born Quotes

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

Quotes by Theodor Herzl

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.

Quotes by Teri Hatcher

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a...

Quotes by Taylor Swift

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when...

Quotes by Sylvie Guillem

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

Quotes by Roger McGuinn

Country Quotes

Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When...

Quotes by Robert Asprin

For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

Quotes by Randy Neugebauer

My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they...

Quotes by Quinn Shephard

The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never...

Quotes by Peter Dawson

Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It's an overactive imagination or something.

Quotes by Natalia Dyer

Feet Quotes

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Quotes by Lykke Li

My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.

Quotes by King Tuff

I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have...

Quotes by Kaui Hart Hemmings

People are sensible enough to know who's dragging my name in dirt for publicity.

Quotes by Karan Patel

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you're failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Quotes by Jocko Willink

Good Quotes

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

Quotes by Jackson Katz

Frequently Asked Questions

What are people usually dragging in these quotes?
Most often it's their feet, whether that means politicians moving slowly on environmental issues or someone reluctant to do work they don't enjoy.
Is dragging always about reluctance?
Mostly, yes, though one quote uses it playfully to describe being pulled into a scary movie despite an overactive imagination.
What's blamed for dragging feet on tough issues?
One quote points to leaders fearing lost votes as a reason progress on difficult issues moves so slowly.
How does dragging relate to storytelling?
One quote contrasts dragging, static introspection with faster-paced plots and action, preferring revealing details over a character simply sitting and thinking.
What other pages pair with dragging quotes?
Readers often browse Feet and Good quotes for more on motivation and momentum.

One voice prefers action and plot over quiet introspection, showing dragging can describe pacing as much as reluctance. Read Good and Born quotes for more.