Quotes About Ambiguity

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

The Declaration's pronouncement of equality was sweeping but sufficiently ambiguous so that even slave holders, of whom Jefferson was one, subscribed to it. That ambiguity was dangerous because it invited the continual expansion of the concept and its requirements. The Declaration was not, clearly, a document that was understood at the time to promise equality of condition, not even among white male Americans. The

Nobody knew what that sort of blather meant in the Sixties and nobody knows now.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

Battle against obscurity

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

This time, as we went over the bridge on the way to the airport, my attorney asked me, "Well, how do you feel now?" I thought about it for a moment, then looked at him and answered, "Intimidating.

Question: What is an optimist? Answer: One who thinks the future is uncertain.

She was more of a business partner to him than anything else. Some of her appreciated that. But rustling yet within her was another person who wanted to bathe and perfume herself...and be taken, carried away, and peeled back by a force she could sense, but never articulate, even dimly within her mind.

I'll never say it another time, to anyone, and I ask you to remember it: In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

U jednom svijetu punom dvosmislenosti ovakva se izvjesnost doga?a samo jedanput i nikada više, ma koliko života ?ovjek proživio.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

He means well. He just doesn't know what he means well.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

The world of affairs, as I have experienced it, is a very ambiguous one. The problem of preparing people to serve and be served by this society is, as Chesterton says, that the world is nearly reasonable but not quite. It is not illogical, yet it is a trap for logicians.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

What, they had asked Meyer, did he do for a living? "Business," he replied. "What kind of business?" came the question. "My business," came his answer, and Lansky absolutely declined to elaborate further.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

Through participation, the field researcher sees firsthand and up close how people grapple with uncertainty and ambiguity, how meanings emerge through talk and collective action, how understandings and interpretations change over time, and how these changes shape subsequent actions.

Viva ambiguity acknowledged unambiguously!

Something feels like it's missing when I haven't heard any music, and when I hear music, then I really feel like something is missing. That's the best I can do in trying to describe music.

The barber's assistant asks if I am a Swede. An American? Not that either. A Russian? Well, then, what are you? I love to answer such nationalistically tinted questions with a steely silence, and to leave people who ask me about my patriotic feelings in the dark. Or I tell lies and say that I'm Danish. Some kinds of frankness are only hurtful and boring.

He doesn't see his path clearly, but also doesn't consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sort, and that's all he requires, for every life promises a great deal and is replete with possibilities enchantingly fulfilled.