Ambivalences Quotes

#1. As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Jim Goldberg

#3. I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Pete Rose

#4. I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour, I soon felt the foul fiend Ennui coming upon me

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. I watched a girl in a sundress kiss another girl on a park bench, and just as the sunlight spilled perfectly onto both of their hair, I thought to myself: 'How bravely beautiful it is, that sometimes, the sea wants the city, even when it has been told its entire life it was meant for the shore.

Christopher Poindexter

#6. Only Time will tell, whether you chose wrong or well

Marwan Wahba

#7. The future is unpredictable by man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

Philip Massinger

#9. When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

Frank Herbert