Ambivalent Quotes

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

Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts? - Robert Pozen

The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself. - Ted Morgan

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 bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. - Primo Levi

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

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of the
national forest. - Ralph Regula