Quotes About Ambiguity

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Incertitude is still hope.

Una alegría más triste que la tristeza.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and muttering the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Uncertainty is still hope.