Quotes About Ambivalence

My heart was fluttering madly as if I was in the presence of a new lover, of whom I was uncertain.

Above Verity and Daniel, in the lounge of Low Mede, Peveral Othman watched Barbara and Louis make love on the rug before the log-effect gas fire. He took some satisfaction from their relief, from Louis' almost tearful gratitude for the body he now inhabited. Othman felt he should go and visit the Winters, although for some reason, he felt compelled to stay at Low Mede. He knew he would feel vulnerable beyond the walls. He was not strong enough at the moment to control Lily and Owen.

Daniel stared at him without expression, wanting to push his hand away, wanting to take hold of it and squeeze the fingers tightly, guide them to his face. It was hard to stay angry at Taziel.

She'd wanted to put him at ease, whilst also revelling in his discomfort. She couldn't understand her feelings.

I would prefer to be liked by a woman who looks like her, Varencienne thought. She looks interesting, yet she is jealous of me, perhaps in the same way Bayard is jealous of Palindrake. How will this end? Will I win her over, or will she destroy me, push me from the battlements, poison me, or have me killed by a brigand? Perhaps we will always be enemies until we are old, or perhaps she will marry and move away.

Why do you think I noticed you so much? This is a dream come true for me, but then it isn't at all. I can't change you.

Will we ever get a taste for that? It is like sugar and spice mixed with bile.

He had way mixed feelings about Fineas Rigg; in some ways he was interesting, and attractive as a pesonality, in others he was seriously unpleasant, although Ays could never specify how exactly. Fineas was always polite and friendly.

Everything that he saw and heard about the city filled him with distaste, yet Valraven seemed to embrace it.

At times, we don't seem to be able to moderate are drinking. At other times we blame it for everything. We love it or we hate it. It is our big solution and it is our big problem.

At times, we don't seem to be able to moderate our drinking. At other times we blame it for everything. We love it or we hate it. It is our big solution and it is our big problem.

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don't get it; it doesn't appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.

I'd like to guest star on 'Game of Thrones.' I love period pieces and dark material. I think the show has a good balance of that and some solid characters.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

Somehow, I don't see myself doing a lead role.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

You're a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.