Quotes About Ambivalence

I didn't want to start aiming for fame. It would be silly to not have entertained offers.

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

Da li je mogu?e da u isto vrijeme nešto i želite i ne želite? Da požuda ide ruku pod ruku sa strahom?

If we love our partners, why do we not just hear each other's calls for attention and connection and respond with caring? Because much of the time we are not tuned in to our partners. We are distracted or caught up in our own agendas. We do not know how to speak the language of attachment, we do not give clear messages about what we need or how much we care. Often we speak tentatively because we feel ambivalent about our own needs. Or

I wanted to know, and I didn't want to know. I was all hung up in limbo.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

I flipped off the television - both ways.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

la contradictoria mezcla de repugnancia y fascinación

There was something in front of her, perhaps happiness: Mary hesitated, like someone in a fairy-tale being offered a tempting dish that might be poisoned. Was that it? Again she didn't know. She disapproved of fairy-tale. They were not rational.

Wat ik denk te begrijpen, zeg het maar als ik me vergis, is het je thuis voelen in Berlijn. Daar is de geschiedenis minder weg dan in Nederland, tenminste, zo onderga ik het. Je ergens thuisvoelen is niet per se positief.

Maybe paradise is overrated.

Um es mit dem Lieblingswort der Ratlosen zu sagen: Mias Verhältnis zu Kramer ist ambivalent.

Quiero creer. Necesito creer. Pero no sé si creo.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Children," Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. "I am never quite certain if I'm glad I had them.

He wasn't sure how he ought to feel about this. On the other hand . . . boiled meat!

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

It's funny, when you speak with 'New York' you never know which way they are going to go. They sorta walk that middle road where you don't know if your interview is going to go good or bad.