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Quotes About Ambivalence

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.
~ Chris Abani
While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'
~ Geoff Dyer
I never wanted to be a fighter in the first place.
~ Corey Anderson
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
~ Anjelica Huston
I don't want to be in the spotlight, ever! I don't know why I got in this profession!
~ Ana de Armas
When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.
~ Kate Pierson
Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.
~ Valerie Plame
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
~ Annette Funicello
I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
~ Amy Chua
I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.
~ Garbine Muguruza
A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn't working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn't want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I've had.
~ Darren Boyd
So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.
~ Betty Hill
I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.
~ Penelope Cruz
Some days I end up thinking I really wish I was in the car - ike the Sonoma test, the boys tested it and I really missed driving the car there. But there are other days that I dont miss it.
~ Dario Franchitti
I don't understand the age we live in, and what I understand I don't like.
~ Robert Tombs
Una pelea? -Dije - No, un duelo - Dijo Belano. ¿Y quien ganó? No sé si yo lo maté a él o él me mató a mí -Dijo Belano.
~ Roberto Bolano
However, I have to warn you, I kind of like that you find me irresistible." "Did I say that?" he asked, a slight tint creeping up his stubbled cheeks. "I didn't say that! I find you completely resistible.
~ Robyn Carr
Lou had to believe he'd find something on Winchester if he just took it methodical. Half a mil. Lou thought about knocking again, then lowered his arm and stood there like a stupid ass. Couldn't even decide whether to knock. Half of him wanted to know what was going on; the other half would just as soon let it lie. The neighbors had IDed
~ Lisa Scottoline
I never know whether to thank Will Smith or hit him.
~ Lisa Scottoline
I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.
~ Lisa See
There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.
~ Lisa Unger
D.J. kind of led me there. He smirked. I think he likes her. No! Yes! No. Yes. No. This can't be happening. Oh, it's happening. Jackson chuckled, because what else could he do?
~ Lisi Harrison
My Lord, we wish to resign. Her smile, confusingly, crept wider, as if she just said something delightful.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, I don't hate him. Can't say as I worship him, either." She paused a long time, and looked up to meet her mother's eyes square on. "But when he's cut, I bleed.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold