Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly. — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. — Annette Funicello Copy Share Image
“I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.” — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities. — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.” — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Life had this unmoored quality, full of voids and barely acknowledged yearnings, and if I'd made a list of things I wanted… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“The problem is that when you’re not fighting for survival, it’s easy to stop making decisions and fall into the trap of… — Ben Ryder Howe Copy Share Image
“To love is to think. And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her. I don’t know what I want… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“It has never been very easy for me to live, though I am always very happy—maybe because I want so much to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
“Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might ," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit that. It makes it more interesting—particularly for Kerans. '… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness… — Ben Doller Copy Share Image
“I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.” — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Real love, the kind you have with a person, must go through ambivalence.There is simply no way around it. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
“Some people call it self-confidence, I call it ambivalence to failure.” — L.M. Long Copy Share Image
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
