Quotes About Ambivalence

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

I don't bad-mouth football, but I also know that it has a long trail of tears and heartbreak and animosity built up by past players who feel that they put so much into the game and didn't get a lot out of it after.

Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits.

I don't care about the transfer market.

I'm constantly going through the transition of love and hate at the same time and it just makes me who I am.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

No, thanks,' said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.

Oh, God. I can't do this. I only slightly want to have a baby. I think. I actually don't know at all.

I was unsure how I felt about this. I used to worry about not knowing how I felt in certain situations, but I had more recently decided to treat them as a convenient opportunity to feel nothing at all.

Nothing is ever known for certain in this world, Michael.

Otherwise, every act has something positive and something negative.

Jedermann will seinen Platz an der Sonne. (Wenn's geht, im Schatten.)

I know I asked, but I don't want to know. I do want to know, but I don't want to know. It doesn't matter. If it's not Tayeb whoever, it'll be something else, and I'd always be playing catch-up. I was always playing catch-up.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

To have one's helplessness and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ dependency taken advantage of by the person one loves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ soon produces an interlinking of love and hate. Because anger toward the loved person cannot be expressed for fear of losing that person Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ambivalence, the interlinking of love and hate, remains an important characteristic of later object relationships. Many

It seemed to me that there were an awful lot of things she had loved about this man with whom she was not in love.

In that moment Bastian made a profound discovery. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the current financial crisis.

The only one among them who wrestled a bit with their role—as the guys who had made a fortune betting against their own society—was Vincent Daniel. "Vinny, being from Queens, needs to see the dark side of everything," said Eisman. To

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.