Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly. — Cherie Carter-Scott 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
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Anonymous 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
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
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
I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world… — Nan Goldin 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
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
And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him… — Gwendolyn Brooks 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,… — Erma Bombeck 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
Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by… — Lynne Tillman 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
“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
“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
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
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
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 public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him,… — Andrea Dworkin 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 about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“In fact, I suspect they prefer flawed certainty to faultless ambivalence.” — Bobby Adair 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
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
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
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
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
