Ambivalence Quotes

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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. — Tony Campolo
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter… — Adrienne Rich
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which… — Paul de Man
Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need… — Judith Levine
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards… — Winston Churchill
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich
Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-manâ€™s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside… — Luce Irigaray
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who… — Erma Bombeck
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence… — Joan Mitchell
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us… — John Scott
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. — Annette Funicello
Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the… — Pope John Paul II
I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is… — Faye Wattleton
Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they… — Diane Frolov
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is… — Esther Perel
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize… — Charles Krauthammer
For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can… — Otto Rank
Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for… — Ellen Goodman

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