Quotes About Being Ambivalent

#1. It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

Jane Pauley

#2. A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live

Sunday Adelaja

#3. The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

Edwidge Danticat

#4. I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

Don Johnson

#5. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

James Thomson

#6. 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

#7. If there's only one God, your God is also the God of your enemy.

Benno Van Der Toren

#8. Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Etgar Keret

#9. I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

Linda Ronstadt

#10. Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

Barbara Holland

#11. We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

Samuel Florman

#12. Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. when you only eat natural foods, you are less likely to become addicted to sugar or fat. And because you won't be prone to sugar or fat addictions, it will be very hard to eat extra calories.

Walter James Brown

#14. The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#15. This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#16. I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

Lena Headey

#17. Even if you're fat, one thing always fits: shoes.

Mimi Pond

#18. We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

Jean De La Bruyere

#19. Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.

Azar Nafisi

#20. But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

John Hutton

#21. When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.'

Greg Camp

#22. You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

Ernest Cline