Quotes About Ambivalence

Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

He was laughing. But sad was the impression he gave.

you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them.

This could be our chance to make RiverClan great. If the other Clans are weak, we could rule over the whole forest.

Toen ik wegging, omhelse ze me even, iets wat, achteraf naar mijn mening, op het randje van een kus geweest kan zijn. Waarschijnlijk was het een afscheidsknuffel. Maar misschien was het een kus

God acts positively toward his people. God is not indifferent. He is not rejecting. He is not ambivalent or dilatory. He does not act arbitrarily, in fits and starts. He is not stingy, providing only for bare survival.

In short, when the non-human world manifests itself to us in these ambivalent ways, more often than not our response is to recuperate that non-human world into whatever the dominant, human-centric worldview is at the time.

Are you a pessimist?" "On my better days…

When someone casually asks me "How are you doing?", I sometimes find myself hesitating, as if caught in a micro-catatonia. The question is both petty and cosmic at the same time. Then I remember: just say "Fine.

Afraid to be content. Content to be sad.

What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it.

The intertwining of love and romance with hedonist and antimodernist themes marked the shift from Victorian morality to a consumption-oriented or 'hedonistic' one in which pleasure was encouraged actively rather than dealt with ambivalently.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and I identified as single.

If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.

I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.