Phil Jackson

I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.

American Coach

Richard Roundtree

I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

American Actor

Zygmunt Bauman

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

Polish Sociologist

Oneohtrix Point Never

I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn't a bad kid, and I definitely wasn't aggressive, but I was a sad kid.

American Musician

Franz Grillparzer

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Austrian Poet

Heather Cox Richardson

The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.

American Historian

Hjalmar Schacht

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

German Economist

Kenneth Baker

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

English Politician

Robert Crumb

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

American Artist

Eliot Spitzer

American Lawyer

Use 'vacillate' to describe someone who cannot make a firm decision and changes their mind frequently.

Indecision

'Vacillate' often implies anxiety or stress about making a decision or choosing sides.

Emotional Context

When using 'vacillate' about decisions, it's metaphorical, not describing physical movement.

Not Physical

Use 'vacillate' to describe something that literally swings or moves side to side, not just figurative indecision.

Physical Motion

'Vacillate' emphasizes a continuous or repeated change in position or state, not just a single change.

Repeated Change

'Vacillate' is fitting to describe mechanical objects with a repetitive swinging motion, akin to a pendulum.

Mechanical Usage

 in favor of carrying on having a lot of kids. And, I say that that's fine -- the future of humanity is entitled to make that choice. What's not fine is for us to make that choice on behalf of the future. If we vacillate, hesitate, and do not actually develop these therapies,

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Vacillate

Indecision

Emotional Context

Not Physical

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