Quotes About Ambivalence

I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.

I'm not sure I ever want to get married.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

When lovers play for kingdoms desire is not enough.

Finishing a book always left her with a heart and mind full of conflicting emotions.

In that moment I began to see that there are times when there is no best choice. There is only this choice and that choice, and both are terrible.

He was anxious to go, reluctant to go. Ready to go.

I smiled. Wanting to shove him into the hall with its red-flocked Victorian wallpaper, not able to comfort him, not wanting to comfort him.

What's going on in your head?" "I don't know," I whisper back. "Then it's like kissing someone who's drunk. It doesn't count.

There had been times when I didn't honestly know how I felt about him. I still don't, really.

think that; I know I should be grateful for the way we have been welcomed. Sick, wounded, starving, and empty-handed. Still, I can never get around the fact that District 13 was

Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

'Hispanic' is a reference to Hispania, the name by which Spain was known in the Roman period, and there has always been strong ambivalence toward Spain in its former colonies.

sometime am feeling proud to have ma loneliness but, sometime am so feeling lonely.

Yes, writing comes easy for me and it's also a painful, arduous process. I love writing. I hate writing. I never want to write again, and I want to write all day, everyday.

I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.

In between trash and treasure.