Quotes About Definiteness

Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.

It makes one feel such a fool," said Mrs. Oliver, ruefully, "not to be able to be definite.

I don't think. I know.

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

No is easier to do, yes is easier to say. No is no to one thing. Yes is no to a thousand things. No is a precision instrument, a surgeon's scalpel, a laser beam focused on one point. Yes is a blunt object, a club, a fisherman's net that catches everything indiscriminately. No is specific. Yes is general.

I don't talk in ifs.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

You can't be partially pregnant.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

That was for damn sure.

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been isolated and singular… the conveyance of meaning gives body and definiteness to the experience of the one who utters as well as to that of those who listen.

Third, the purpose is to be described as concretely as possible, not abstractly.

eso es todo, ¡y nada más!»

If it's not a "Hell Yes!" then it's a "Hell No!"...it's that simple.

I have only white or black; I don't want the gray. Everything or nothing.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Twat is twat and that is that.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.