Quotes About Mixed Feelings

#1. --when men approach me to let me know that I was their first love, lets just say I have mixed feelings. Why did all these men find it so easy to be in love with me then and so complex to be in love with me now?

Carrie Fisher

#2. I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

Hari Kondabolu

#3. Top Democrats have mixed feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton running for president. Apparently, some Democrats don't like the idea, while others hate it.

Conan O'Brien

#4. Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

W. H. Auden

#5. Every situation had a little shelf in her head and she never took more than one thing down at a time, never mixed feelings, always kept a sense of control.

Jewel E. Ann

#6. Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

Matthew Specktor

#7. I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

Helmut Newton

#8. Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

Eoin Colfer

#9. Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

W. H. Auden

#10. We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.

Donna Goddard

#11. Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

Eric Thomas

#12. Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings about the way some guy fucked her and didn't call. But I don't believe in a finite economy of empathy; I happen to think that paying attention yields as much as it taxes.

Leslie Jamison

#13. A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

Gina Carano

#14. Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

Gene Luen Yang

#15. I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.

Raekwon

#16. As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

Rem Koolhaas

#17. When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

Lorna Luft

#18. So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these ... mixed feelings that we had.

Betty Hill

#19. In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

#20. Some people had mixed feelings about this - they'd obviously been abandoned here, everyone was hungry and 911 wasn't even operational; on the other hand, no one wants to be a thief - but then a business traveler named Max said, "Look, everyone just chill the fuck out, I'll cover it with my Amex.

Emily St. John Mandel

#21. I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

Malcolm Gladwell

#22. Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

George Carman

#23. Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

Matthew Sweet

#24. She meant that if your conscience holds you back, if it muddles the purity of your desire, if it gives you mixed feelings, don't do it.

Siri Hustvedt

#25. I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

Matthew Specktor

#26. I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.

Craig Ferguson

#27. I have finished Pasternak with mixed feelings, which is more than I hoped for.

Samuel Beckett

#28. I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

Jello Biafra

#29. I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Todd Rundgren

#30. You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

Sarah Kane

#31. I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Taylor Swift

#32. Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.

Ravi Zacharias

#33. I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.

Rick Riordan

#34. Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.

Viggo Mortensen

#35. Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.

Ann Burton

#36. Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#37. Well, this is how I feel: I want to live by the ocean but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside. Do you understand me?

Anonymous

#38. The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

Napoleon Hill

#39. I loved her when I hated her. And I loved her when I didn't want anything to do with her. I was so crazy about her, the lines had blurred together. Feelings were mixed, emotions twisted together.

L.J. Shen

#40. Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Honore De Balzac

#41. No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

Patrick Rothfuss

#42. The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.

Amelie Mauresmo

#43. My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Cory Doctorow

#44. Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

George Eliot

#45. On such a night,' I thought, 'were ill and good,
Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry,
All mingled into one
And pressed against my heart.

Irene Hunt

#46. When something horrible happens, your brain doesn't process the memories right. It stores everything
sounds, pain, smells, feelings
all mixed up. It doesn't matter if you believed it or it made sense; it gets stored.

Cherise Sinclair

#47. Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions, constitute a "magnetic" force which attracts other similar, or related thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#48. Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#49. It appeared like their pain and suffering were combined feelings. But, feelings never did kill anyone. It was running away from feelings that lead to the absolute death of any relationship.

A.A. Gupte

#50. Happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time

David Levithan

#51. The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.

Max Beckmann