Ambivalence Quotes

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

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

The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence. - Jane Lazarre

The movement hasn't caught fire. Part of the reason that Americans are ambivalent is they still feel it's very important to get this (the war) right, and don't want to completely withdraw support. ... They're at the point of ambivalence rather than opposition. - Eric Larson

The effect of the fantasy is based in part on the ambivalence kids feel toward their parents and independence. Kids want and fear being left alone. These stories and film deal with that ambivalence. - Mark Crispin Miller

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. - Paul De Man

So the public is really very divided on this issue. The ambivalence is remarkable. - Andrew Kohut

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. - Alice S. Rossi

No one wants to call the attention of the public to bloodletting and heroism and the horrifying character of combat. What situation can be imagined that would promote the war and not remind people of its ambivalence? - Richard Kohn