Ambivalence Quotes

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
John Scott

Love, Loyalty, Makes

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
Tony Campolo

Government, Social, Beginning

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
Erica Jong

Dance, Wonderful, Rhythm

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.
Jane Pauley

Fame, Celebrity

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Family, History, Long

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

Career, Ambition, Whatever

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively

Memory, Operation, Fascinated

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
Michael Fassbender

Him, Leaving, Place

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
Amy Waldman

Hard, After, Confusion

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

Nature, Writing, After

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

Work, Job, Nothing

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