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Quotes About Ambivalence

If starting games in a club like Manchester City and winning two titles isn't enough, too bad. I won't regret anything.
~ Samir Nasri
I'm so used to my appearance, I don't feel either offended or pleased by it. To be honest, I am not madly interested.
~ Caroline Quentin
To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.
~ Cam'ron
To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
~ David Grann
I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest!
~ Myles Kennedy
To be honest, I am not really excited by most of the offers I get.
~ Parvathy
You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.
~ Sarah Kane
I'm faced at every moment with two possible lives, and I must choose one without knowing whether I want it, whether it's worth it.
~ Sarah Manguso
My own girlhood felt like something from 1650 even when it was happening. The little parties, kindnesses done by friends, the light as I walked home from school. Pine needles. I spent those days feeling half-there, not quite committed to that life.
~ Sarah Manguso
Kris was in black running shorts and a tight gray T-shirt constructed from some sort of magical material that clung to his muscles and triggered a gush of epinephrine while her amygdala attempted to reconcile two conflicting signals from her prefrontal cortex: attraction and revenge. "All
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.
~ Sarah Vowell
What did she want? Frances couldn't tell. She wasn't sure she cared any more. There had been too much dancing back and forth. The night had been over-stretched: it had lost its tension.
~ Sarah Waters
I'm not so sure about him.
~ Sarah Waters
Ambiguity makes everyone tolerant of incompetence.
~ Scott Berkun
Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.
~ Aisha Tyler
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
~ Ambrose Bierce
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
~ Ann Brashares
It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
~ Barack Obama
L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.
~ Zella Day
When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.
~ Samuel Alito
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
~ Seneca the Younger
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
~ Marat Safin
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
~ Matt Damon