Ambivalent Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,… — Primo Levi
You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent. — Steve Higgins
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. — Keith Ablow
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Real love isn't ever ambivalent, — Tony Kushner
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture… — Rene Konig
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual… — Eric Fischl
Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running… — Robert Pozen
When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em! — Colin Johnson
The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest. — Ralph Regula
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music". — Demetri Martin
Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a… — Melody Beattie
It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent… — Barack Obama
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite… — Benedict Cumberbatch
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.… — C.S. Lewis
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard… — Vernon A. Walters
I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films… — Mike Leigh
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 chit-chat, but that's… — Ariel Gore

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