Ambivalence Quotes

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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 of forms and space.

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 unique.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

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 the personal attack.

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

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 the Syria campaign.

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too

I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.

A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.

The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.

In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too soon.