Quotes About Ambivalence

I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.

I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you'll ask.I don't know: but I feel, and I'm tormented.

Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet... Somehow I'll miss you too.

It's really weird and I'm experiencing a spontaneous kind of internal sensation, I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Como Jean poderia compreender que nada pode me desapontar porque não acho nada digno de ser desejado?

Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus

Siento que me estoy moviendo hacia delante a la vez que alejándome de algo, y todo es posible (American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis)

Ambrose shrugged his spikes moodily. "I don't suppose you'd like me to fetch your lunch, dinner, tea'n'supper too. Huh!" "Oh, and Ambrose, would you ask Winifred to fetch our lunch, dinner, tea and supper out here? This is going to be a long job!

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess. And everything awful used to be something good.

It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.

W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

I'll rise - but I won't shine.

When the Dublin-born Beckett was asked by a Parisian journalist whether he was English, he replied, 'On the contrary.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

This is a lovely party, said the Bursar to a chair, I wish I was here.

He'd wanted changes. It was just that he'd wanted things to stay the same, as well.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

You know, I still don't know whether I loved him or hated him. Loved him, certainly, at first. And then hated him. And now? I don't know. . . . It's complicated.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'