Quotes About Ambivalence

Should I smile because we're friends, or cry because that's all we'll ever be.

Years of education, solving tough problems, handling complex issues, yet we take a while standing before glass doors thinking whether to Push or Pull.

I want to be happy and sad at the same time. Yeah, I know it sounds sappy.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

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Bottom line: any ambivalence Graham had over Trump's conduct (for example, for trashing his best friend to the grave and beyond) was eclipsed by his desperation to remain a U.S. senator.

Whereas incongruity is the clash of incompatible ideas or perceptions, ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting emotions, such

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.

Love at first sight is a lustful ambivalence with a deliberate intent.

Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need not to be.

people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time, and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need to not be. I

And if it was this hard with Ratthi and Pin-Lee (Gurathin had never liked me and it was mutual), what was it going to be like with Mensah, if I managed to get that far? I didn't know if I could trust them. I wanted to. But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.