Quotes About Ambivalence

As much as I hated my mockery of a life, it was the only mockery I had, and I didn't particularly want to lose it. There

In the balloons of grandeur that kept Stephenson aloft, the presidency was just a few puffs of helium away. "Boys, I'm not in this for the money," he told his cronies. "You're going to put me in the White House.

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.

We were not somewhere between success and failure; we were elsewhere.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

I just don't feel the Olympic spirit.

I've been on and off with West Ham, I've had some good seasons and some not.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

You should know that I don't love you and that I love you.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero. Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

N-o mai iubesc, asta-i sigur, dar poate înc? o iubesc. Iubirea e atât de scurt?, ÅŸi-atât de lung? e uitarea.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.

Must be quite nice, really. A foot on each side of the fence. Long as you don't mind what it's doing to your balls.

it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.

Langdon watched the phone plummet down and splash into the dark waters of the Nervión River. As it disappeared beneath the surface, he felt a pang of loss, staring back after it as the boat raced on. "Robert," Ambra whispered, "just remember the wise words of Disney's Princess Elsa." Langdon turned. "I'm sorry?" Ambra smiled softly. "Let it go.

You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

the professor talking about eigengrau—intrinsic gray, brain gray. It was the color you "saw" when light was totally absent, a kind of visual noise, like snow static on a television.