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Quotes About Ambivalence

Para ellos, en cambio, soy especial. No tengo conciencia, o bien tengo demasiada, no consiguen decidirse.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Man, it had been worth it, though. That was great. That shit was…great. Except
~ J.R. Ward
Because now I am grown so old and neutral....
~ Jack Kerouac
Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.
~ Jack Kerouac
And off we went to the sad and disinclined concert for which I had no stomach whatever and all the time I was thinking of Dean and how he got back on the train and rode over three thousand miles over that awful land and never knew why he had come anyway, except to see me.
~ Jack Kerouac
To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
~ J. August Richards
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
~ Ben Whishaw
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
~ Elia Kazan
I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.
~ Lauren Oliver
Victory is always bittersweet.
~ Nadia Scrieva
Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides
~ Carl Jung
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time -- what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
~ Sydney Harris
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
~ Sydney J. Harris
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better...
~ Sydney J. Harris
Nash was respected but not well liked.
~ Sylvia Nasar
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
~ Sylvia Plath
?wiat si? wyrówna?. Nie ma z?ych i dobrych. Jest wielki, nieszcz?sny t?um depcz?cy sobie po nogach. Jest noc. Noc oboj?tno?ci, noc apatii, noc chaosu.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
my gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin
~ Tadeusz Ró?ewicz
There is a side of me that is most intensely attracted to women who annoy me.
~ Tana French
dumped an enormous IKEA package in the house: presumably it would change the landscape if and when I got up the energy to assemble it, but until then it was just there, in the middle of everything, where I barked my shin or banged my elbow on it every time I tried to get past.
~ Tana French
It's lovely. I hate it.
~ Tanith Lee
She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along.
~ Tanya Anne Crosby