Quotes About Ambivalence

I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

This is the best worst time of my life.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.

Here I was - my body heading to one place, my heart stuck in another. My mind's got questions and no answers.

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

Maggie shook her head. "I'm not calm, I'm just...hesitant. It's like, I always think pretty soon my life will be this great story, as soon as it starts.

maybe i just loved some of you. maybe not enough

It's a scene I've fantasized about for years. Yet, now that it's happening, a part of me sits in the audience, watching the actors say their lines, analyzing the blocking. I can't tell if this is a defense mechanism or my intuition warning me to beware.

She had a glass of Bushmills in one hand and a glass of Bacardi in the other because she was still at that stage of working out what to have for her first drink.

Some sang because they were afraid not to sing. But quite a few of them simply didn't listen to the words or weren't interested in them. Indeed, many of those who clapped at the leaders' speeches, or who mouthed slogans at meetings, or who marched in May Day parades did so with a certain odd ambivalence.

I'm confused." "Where Meg is concerned, you've been confused since you met her.

For someone with so many books and such desire to obtain new copies, you seem awfully ambivalent about them." "I know their power and impact. It is all about perception, is it not, Miss Chase?" She studied him. "I like to think it is about content, Lord Downing. But perception does lay a gloss on the surface. A finger must but swirl beneath.

She wasn't sure she WANTED to live happily ever after.

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

To convey my predicament, I never resorted to descriptive terms or expressions such as "I'm expecting," "pregnant" or "pregnancy." They endorsed a future event that would never materialize. There was no point naming something that I was planning to get rid of. In my diary I would write, "it" or "that thing," only once "pregnant.

14 h 45. Pour la première fois, j'ose téléphoner à l'ambassade d'URSS pour savoir (cela, savoir, savoir...) s'il y a ou non cinéma aujourd'hui. C'est non et je suis un peu soulagée, juste de ma jalousie, non de mon désir de le voir.

Aujourd'hui si noir (mais pensais-je le garder un an ?).

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.