Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they… — Vernon A. Walters Copy Share Image
When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent… — Greg Camp Copy Share Image
There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest. — Ralph Regula Copy Share Image
What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it… — Valeria Golino Copy Share Image
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it. — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death… — Barbara Ascher Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image