I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I find it ironic that someone so ambivalent about living fights so hard to survive.” — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
“Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one. ” — Robert LeFevre Copy Share Image
“Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.” — Jon Meacham 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
'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my… — Jon Stewart 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 was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying… — Demetri Martin 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
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
I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their… — Shoshana Zuboff 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
No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school… — Colin Hanks 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 think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude… — Roxane Gay 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 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
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
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out… — Mike Leigh 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
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
“The ambivalent strategy involves clinging to the care-giver, often with excessive submissiveness, or adopting a role-reversal in which the care-giver is cared… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris 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
The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest. — Ralph Regula Copy Share Image
“…it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
