Quotes About Ambivalence

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

Being a fringe player is not the role I want.

For many of us, football is both a source of frustration and absolute euphoria.

We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves!

You find yourself in another world you weren't looking for where what you see is that you have always been the wolves at the door. Left ajar, gaping, your own door.

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil.... You, who see evil everywhere....' It was true, and it was not true.

You try to decide if you should take this as a message of endings. Or beginnings.

She wears a Val Surf T-shirt and boys' boxer shorts and she has a boy's phone number scrawled on her hand. Part of her wants to spit on it and rub it off, and part of her wishes it was written in huge numbers across her belly, his name in gang letters, like a tattoo.

from the earliest passages to the diary's final entry, in which she talks about her "dual personality," the lighthearted, superficial side that lies in wait to ambush and push away her "better, deeper, and purer" self.

J'ai toujours eu limpression quil mappréciait et recherchait mon amitié avec ce mélange de nostalgie et d'agressivité qui lui était propre.

We have created a monster — enormously valuable and even useful yet extremely dangerous. Our monster is both beautiful and terrifying. We do not dare use this monster to its full potential, but we cannot release our grasp upon it. — Gowachin assessment of the Dosadi experiment

I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the taste.

La comparación del pájaro en mano y ciento volando sólo se puede aplicar aquí muy relativamente. En la mano no tengo nada, volando está todo y sin embargo -así lo determinan las condiciones del combate y las necesidades de la vida- tengo que elegir la nada.

Ja sam kraj ili po?etak.

At the moment there is nothing definite to say about the question or about me. I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. Franz

Când mai eram înc? mulÅ£umit,voiam s? fiu nemulÅ£umit,ÅŸi m? împingeam ,cu toate mijloacele pe care mi le oferea vremea ÅŸi condiÅ£ia mea înspre nemulÅ£umire;acum aÅŸ vrea mult s? m? port întoarce.AÅŸadar,am fost întodeauna nemulÅ£umit,chiar ÅŸi în nemulÅ£umirea mea.

Birinin hayat?n?n neresinde olduÄŸumu çözemediÄŸim zaman hiçbir yerinde olmamay? garantilerim çünkü belirsizlik, deÄŸersizliktir.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet. Iron & Wine seemed to fit with that duality and I thought it would be more interesting to call the project that rather than use Sam Beam.

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.