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
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using… — Pankaj Mishra 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
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
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs,… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of… — Michael Fassbender 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
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
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot 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
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer… — R.C. Robertson-Glasgow 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
So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force… — George Carlin 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
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
I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite… — Garth Greenwell 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
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
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
