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 used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.” — Suzanne Finnamore 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
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Anonymous 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
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly. — Cherie Carter-Scott 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
“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
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
“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'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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do… — Leviak B. Kelly 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 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence. — Jane Lazarre Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
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