Quotes About Ambivalence

I'm ambivalent about tech.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to hate them. That's what keeps people drawn to their television sets.

Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet - there's a sense of being dragged slowly off, not against our will but regardless of it. And fighting the undertow, as children are quick to learn, is not usually the best way of getting back to the beach. Floating along with it, on the other hand, can be fatal. It's really the struggle, the argument with oneself, that interests...

There are always loose ends in real life.

insouciance, he was edgy. Why didn't he ask why Strike was there? Or did

The world of affairs, as I have experienced it, is a very ambiguous one. The problem of preparing people to serve and be served by this society is, as Chesterton says, that the world is nearly reasonable but not quite. It is not illogical, yet it is a trap for logicians.

Mir fehlt etwas, wenn ich keine Musik höre, und wenn ich Musik höre, fehlt mir erst recht etwas. Dies ist das Beste, was ich über Musik zu sagen weiß.

You must hope and yet hope for nothing. Look up to something, yes, do that, because that is right for you, you're young, terribly young, Jakob, but always admit to yourself that you despise it, the thing that you're looking up to with respect.

I long for another human face just as I fear it.

Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

There are so many plans, and so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Had I known at the time how well I wrought, said Yama, I might have numbered its days intentionally. Occasionally, do I regret my genius.

Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity.

He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.

It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.

Too many ifs, Reacher thought. And too few answers.

I arise each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day. —E. B. White The

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