Quotes about Ambivalence
Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.
- Richard O'Brien
Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it.
- Toni Morrison
Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.
- Toni Morrison
Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want
- Tucker Max
Do I sing? Oh, I'm indifferent enough, sir, for that; but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade, sir.
- Herman Melville
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
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
- Paulo Coelho
Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.
- Ayn Rand
God acts positively toward his people. God is not indifferent. He is not rejecting. He is not ambivalent or dilatory. He does not act arbitrarily, in fits and starts. He is not stingy, providing only for bare survival.
- Eugene Peterson
The problem, however, is that we not only want our freedom but also fear it.
- Henri Nouwen
Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Right. Yes. The usual choices.
- Margaret Atwood
This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
- Margaret Atwood