“In fact, I suspect they prefer flawed certainty to faultless ambivalence.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence. — Jane Lazarre Copy Share Image
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women — Lillian B. Rubin 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
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to… — Bob Fosse Copy Share Image
“A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If the idea of dating someone doesn't prompt an enthusiastic "Fuck yes!" then the answer is no. Ambivalence has little place in… — Franklin Veaux Copy Share Image
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.… — Echo and the Bunnymen 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
From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Let us consider the polarity of love and hate… Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and… — Madeleine M. Kunin 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
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form:… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“It is the discrepancy between the promise implicit in his touch and his daily interactions with her that generates so much confusion… — Marcy Sheiner Copy Share Image
I think that social migration to another economic class requires a kind of negotiating with yourself. And also, there's so much ambivalence… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and… — Lissie Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent. — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury Copy Share Image
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