Quotes About Ambivalence

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

Reading the stories was like trying to make out an object through the refracted light of a heavy snowstorm. He could see the snowflakes, immediate and particular, and he could discern the more distant objects that were coated in white: trees, roofs, roads, buildings. But he couldn't actually see any particular object for itself, only the covered outlines.

Anhelamos marcharnos lejos y quedarnos en casa al mismo tiempo.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.