Quotes About Ambiguity

I don't know,' I said grimly. 'Oh,' she said. Then after a time, she added, 'When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't, but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend I eventually intend to do it.

Be damned for a ram as deeply as a lamb.

You cannot know" he said simply. "Very little is certain in this life, my lady.

Jack narrowed his eyes. "Why can't you be just a hundred percent good or a hundred percent bad? Why do you have to keep me all confused all the time?

Nothing is ever what it seems, he

I'm simple when you want me to be complicated. And I'm complicated when you want me to be simple.

It's fair to say I don't know what I'm doing. I like to plot my life and proceed carefully, but life doesn't always follow a plan.

How the hell should I know what we deserve?

Like zero direction

I can't make sense out of that girl, he said to the bard, Can you? Never mind, Fflewddur said, We aren't really expected to.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong.

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

God save me from another such victory.

My Lord, we wish to resign. Her smile, confusingly, crept wider, as if she just said something delightful.

When I was twenty, I knew everything about my future. Now, I know nothing.

I spent a career fighting the powers-that-be. Now I am them. Naturally, I was a little confused.

Suddenly what to do with the rest of my life and what shirt to wear became equally daunting decisions.

Blind obedience was never what I wanted. Yet, you seem determined to keep us in the past, where every act, every response, is either black or white, when you know damned good and well our lives never existed on such a plane.

Why do you believe he calls you a 'whelp,' young man? Could it be because you're so like him that he's not certain whether to feel pride or to shoot you and put the world out of its misery?

The challenge of wonder is to tolerate uncertainty. If you do not relax into uncertainty, wonder may start to seem like insecurity.

Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and then moved randomly down some other way.

His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?

Imagine a wife and a mistress sharing the same toothbrush forever and ever, never knowing.