Quotes About Ambivalence

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.

Too many people feel stuck in the middle - not wealthy by any measure, but doing just well enough that the social safety net isn't there for them. They feel left behind by a system that isn't listening to them and an economy that isn't rewarding them for their hard work.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching.

I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

I've got some teammates telling me I can play for a long time, ooh, boy, I don't want to play for a long time.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

If, like Jung, you are somewhat confused and ambivalent about your direction, it can be useful to choose someone who can help you gain some clarity about what you want, someone important in the field who might not fit perfectly with your tastes.

Well, Mat thought, guess I can take that. For now.

I feel happy to be here, and still a little sad to be here too. Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.

He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.