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Quotes About Ambivalence

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
~ Jimmy Wales
I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.
~ Laurence Gartel
I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.
~ Timothy Garton Ash
But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
~ Virginia Woolf
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
~ Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
I love America, but I don't like it.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.
~ Terrence Howard
Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.
~ Billy Joel
In a way, Jennifer felt bad, busting into such a nice place in full riot gear and scaring the crap out of everybody. But in another, more accurate way, she enjoyed it a lot.
~ Max Barry
Hope was such a gift and a curse all rolled into one.
~ Maya Banks
In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).
~ Meg Cabot
Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet... Somehow I'll miss you too.
~ Meg Cabot
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Nat didn't know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, definitely
~ Melissa de la Cruz
herself for such a place—something between a sweat shop and a mortuary. Instead, she caught
~ Becky Lee Weyrich
Kinberg grew up in Hollywood but was largely repulsed by it. His father had been only moderately successful and had "complicated feelings" about his profession. Many of Kinberg's friends at the private school he attended in the 1980s were the children of film-industry professionals who were snorting drugs and getting divorced and generally doing whatever was necessary to turn their kids into the future protagonists of a Bret Easton Ellis book.
~ Ben Fritz
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
~ Ben Marcus
So, with no real plan for my future and content to let fate
~ Bernard Cornwell
She was struggling, as she had always struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.
~ Bernhard Schlink
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
~ Will Self
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.
~ Mary Karr
The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.
~ Peter Serafinowicz
I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.
~ Angus Deayton
Maybe if I had signed for Chelsea I'd just have been sitting on the bench and what is the point in that?
~ Dejan Lovren