Quotes About Ambivalence

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

I had mixed feelings, like watching your Mother in Law drive over a cliff in your car.

For a man of the type of Pompeius, who for want of faith in himself and in his star timidly clung in public life to formal right, and with whom the pretext was nearly of as much importance as the motive, this circumstance was of serious weight.

Rüya, ÅŸakalar?n?n kalitesi hakk?nda tasalanmaz. Ä°yi espriler yapmak derdinde deÄŸildir; çünkü zaten herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmak istememektedir. Rüya yönelimsizdir; çünkü kendisi yönelimdir; bu nedenle rüyalar?n isabetli ya da isabetsiz olmas? söz konusu deÄŸildir.

She had longed for adventure, and now that it was happening to her, she was not sure how she felt about it.

Sin definicion, se da lugar a la ambiguedad. La mayoria de las iglesias es ambigua en cuanto a su proceso ministerial, o porque no tienen uno o porque esta apenas definido. Y donde existe la ambiguedad, con frecuencia hay confusion.

news of all this reached [John], but he said that he did not care about the child, since he still had the anvils and the hammers to forge even finer ones'.

Carlyle thought little of these Essays. "Wretched lives" is his best word for them when he is bilious and the world is all gloom; but when in another place he confesses that he was seldom happier than when writing them, we may take his condemnation as he did his bile, "with a drop of oil and a grain of salt.

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

You know, I can't tell you that I'm very fond of anything I've done, including - and especially- 'The Addams Family.' That's an albatross around my neck that I've got to get rid of somehow.

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

I think that social migration to another economic class requires a kind of negotiating with yourself. And also, there's so much ambivalence in your heart about who you are and who you're really not.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

'Down Home with the Neelys' was the highest-rated Food Network show in history. But the crazy part about it was I never wanted to do that show. I never wanted to live my life quite out loud like that.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

I am, in fact, a candle salesperson's worst nightmare - or dream come true, depending on the salesperson.

I have no interest at all in the success of the Seattle Mariners.

What was he doing with her? How on earth could he love her? But he did. Or, at least, she made him feel sick, sad, and distracted. Perhaps there was another way of describing that unique and useless combination of feelings, but "love" would have to do for now.

I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt like a baked Alaska.

I'm someone who's mostly dead inside but still has a little hope for something extraordinary, which, as I said, is the worst breed of human, because it means I know everything is bullshit, but that I secretly hope for the day when it might not be.