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Quotes About Ambivalence

Sure. A girl can walk away from her dreams of vengeance. I still want to see Valens court-martialed for what he did to me almost thirty years back. On the other hand, he's saved my life twice now. Sometimes things get a little hard to reconcile.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I want to care, but I don't.
~ Elizabeth Scott
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I was torn between anger and amusement.
~ Ashley Gardner
When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
~ Jonathan Coe
Real Madrid? I don't have any nostalgia or bitterness.
~ Fabio Cannavaro
I was very young when I was with Real Madrid and in some ways 'appreciated it and in others I didn't.
~ Nicolas Anelka
It's gratifying when younger women come up and say, 'I went to law school because of you.' My heart swells; then it's like, wait, are you glad, or do you blame me?
~ Marcia Clark
I'd love to do a play with Ma but I don't know whether that's like literally filling in your own grave and putting the gravestone on top.
~ Finty Williams
I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.
~ Shannon Sharpe
My general feeling about award shows that I've been to in the past was always that when you win, it's a great time. What a joy. You're celebrating there. And when you lose, the whole thing feels very stupid and why does anyone care about any of this. This is boring. I want to go home.
~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg
I want to play a character with grey shades.
~ Kriti Sanon
The great thing about 'Mirzapur' is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey shade.
~ Shriya Pilgaonkar
I don't exactly relate to grey characters.
~ Kay Kay Menon
I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.
~ Dr. Dre
Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
~ Harrison Ford
I talk bad about Uriah Hall all the time but I don't dislike the guy.
~ Gegard Mousasi
I never want to be in the UFC Hall of Fame.
~ Quinton Jackson
Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night?
~ George Bernard Shaw
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
~ George Carlin
So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.
~ George Carlin
She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
~ George Eliot
There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version.
~ George Eliot