Ambivalences Quotes & Sayings

You are not promised anything beyond THIS MOMENT! — Jairek Robbins

To us then, Justine - the manipulated, the tossed off, the rejected." Brandon held the half-full glass out to her. "Actually, I think you had better have some yourself. You are going to need it, wife." His eyes glittered over her.
She took the glass from him, her cold fingers brushed his warm ones. She swallowed what was left in one go because she knew what he was thinking.
The inevitable. — Cat Porter

This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this. — Shaquille O'Neal

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. — Pankaj Mishra

[H]ow the force of one's adolescent curiosity and incipient lust often must war with the need to protect oneself from disgusting and wicked violators, how pleasure can coexist with awful degradation without meaning the degradation was justified or a species of wish fulfillment; how it feels to be both accomplice and victim; and how such ambivalences can live on in an adult sexual life. — Maggie Nelson

I'm always suffering from a labor shortage. — Masamune Shirow

When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside. — Yusuke Kishi

So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present even to the one who's lived it- maybe especially to the one who's lived it. I didn't seek to find her, wandered instead within and among her fragments of language-notebooks, drafts, journals, fictions, letters, essays, and found there whole worlds like spinning planets, lived in their cold light and burning light, wondering where I was, where they might take me. Curious, I heard a monster's voice and followed- — Laurie Sheck

Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

I heard most of you were gossiping, leaving the lonely ones alone. Look at people around you. Doesn't it mean anything to you? Anyways, as I have experienced travelling, I realized that there are different people, different cultures, different identities, food and most of all, love, family and responsibility. — Fahmid Hassan Prohor

When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making. — Bob Anderson

Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man's land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles. — Luce Irigaray

I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order. — James Nesbitt

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities. — Jim Goldberg