The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest. — Ralph Regula 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
“…it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I find it ironic that someone so ambivalent about living fights so hard to survive.” — Denise Grover Swank 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
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
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
I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
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
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find… — Edward Albee 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
As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be… — Geoffrey Rush 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
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“Like many Americans of his generation in this awkwardest of post-Imperial decades, an age suspended between exhaustion and replenishment, between input too… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second… — Brad Carson 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
It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare… — Richard Stolley 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
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp 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
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
“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
“The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit.” — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“the American nation today is infantile so much as adolescent—that is ambivalent in its twin desire for both authoritarian structure and the… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children… — Anna Freud 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
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
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