Quotes About Ambivalence

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

I wouldn't have wished for something hoping that I wouldn't get it. I wouldn't have wished for it knowing that I'd get it

Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

Does anyone actually think that Beckham knows he's in America? I think he just follows a football and all he notices is that it occasionally gets warmer.

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.