Quotes About Ambivalence

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the sarcophagi raise them to a symphonic crescendo. Each is a battleground of conflicting emotions and motives, in which will and paralysis battle for supremacy.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

The fusion of areas of consciousness which for us are more or less clearly defined leads, as it were, to a perpetual game of hide-and-seek with ourselves and to a confusion of ego positions. Emotional instability, ambivalent pleasure-pain reactions, the interchangeability of inside and outside, of individual and group—all these result in an insecurity for the ego which is intensified by the powerfully emotional and affective "vectors" of the unconscious.

Neither of them is right. And neither of them is wrong. Prophecies are strange things. Their words are never clear.

I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

Zach Palmer, who was half human and half—we weren't really sure what, including the possibility that the other half might be human as well.

And I personally don't so much believe in it as have to massage its feet when I go home at night.

plausible deniability.

I was ambivalent about the proposal for a new consumer protection regulator.

even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.

All cats are gray in the dark.

I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

I regret all of my books.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.

I have a love/hate relationship with jogging.

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place.

If I get a rematch with somebody, cool, but if they're not holding the belt, I really don't care.

So I'll be honest, after the whole Rusev Day thing ended with more of a whimper than a bang, it was a little disheartening.

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.