Quotes About Ambivalence

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

When I defeated Soto Karass, I asked for a fight against Paul Malignaggi. A few months went by, and I saw that Golden Boy Promotions wanted to do a fight between Malignaggi and Shane Mosley. The truth is that it made me angry, but that's the way things are sometimes in the world of boxing.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.

It was hard to love something so much and want it to disappear at the same time

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacing back and forth, its disastrous retreats!

Bizler ak?nt?ya kar?? gemilerimizi ilerletmeye çal???rken, hiç durmadan geçmiÅŸe çekiliyorduk asl?nda.

That's quite different. I told you I wouldn't want to tie my life to any of the boys that are round Tarleton now, but I never made any sweepin' generalities.

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale - and yet they weren't unhappy either.

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to hm, entirely justified.

hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort

I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by inexhaustible variety of life.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. Myrtle

Tahtsin ära minna ja sumedas õhtuhämaruses pargi poole jalutada, aga iga kord, kui ma lahkumist üritasin, mässiti mind lärmakasse, pöörasesse vaidlusse, mis kiskus mu nagu köitega toolile tagasi. Ent küllap vaatas samal ajal mõni juhuslik möödamineja pimenevalt tänavalt üles, uudistades inimsaladusi, mida varjas meie kollaste akende rida.

I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

Pouco me importa. Pouco me importa o quê? Não sei: pouco me importa.

To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I've shaped my life, almost without thinking about it, but I did it with so much instinctive art that even to myself I've become a not entirely clear and definite individual.

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

Und so schleppe ich mein Leben damit hin, das zu tun, was ich nicht will, und das zu erträumen, was ich nicht haben kann, absurd wie eine stehen-gebliebene öffentliche Uhr. Nur die zarte, aber feste Sensibilität, der lange, aber vollauf bewusste Traum, bilden in ihrer Gesamtheit mein Halbschattenprivileg.