Quotes About Ambivalence

He was neither asleep nor awake, neither this nor that. It was some new state that he was in, some new kind of nonexistence.

Yes?" she said. "And who might you be?" I bowed, because it seemed the appropriate response. "I might be Jill's friend." I said. "Or I might be an Israeli terrorist looking for PLO supporters. Or possibly a burglar trying to steal your jewels to support my laudanum habit. Or even a neighbor complaining about the volume. That is "Heart of Uncle," isn't it? It really ought to be louder.

I have strong opinions about ambivalence.

I dont care how Ill be remembered after death. For all I know people will put all my work in a skip the next day.

I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but part of me just doesn't know how much I believe in that, as much as I want to.

'The One and Only'? Down the years I've had a slight love/hate relationship with it, but I can't not love playing it.

I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

Contrary to what people believe, yes, basketball has been a big part of my life. But on the other hand, it's also been a small part.

I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.

So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'

This ambivalence about the value of cooking raises an interesting question: Has our culture devalued food-work because it is unfulfilling by it's very nature or because it has traditionally been women's work?

If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?

Hay días en que me siento dispuesto a hacerlo todo y otros en que me siento incapaz de hacer nada; lo que ahora me es grato, en ocasiones suele desagradarme.

Nick wasn't sure what he thought about

He was not sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do.

James J. Strang, innocent target of religious persecution—like all his personae, this one proved to be a mask. Yet it was exactly those masks—those endless layers of ambiguity—that gave the man his charisma

I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it.

I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.