Quotes About Ambiguity

There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing." Isern carved a little piece of chagga from a dried-out chunk. "Like most things, it's a matter of how you look at it." "Very profound." "As always." "Maybe someone whose head hurt less would enjoy your wisdom more.

People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

What use are straight answers in a crooked world?

On the right side of history, maybe. Vick snorted. The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters. That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

Which side are we on, then?" "That's one o'those questions you try not to answer till you have to.

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting.

Is it gold?' asked the lad. 'Copper,' she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They

Man found floating by the docks" - San Dan Glokta

one teebs? You mean tablespoon?" "I don't know.

the only thing you are sure of is that you aren't sure of anything any more.

The truth is more complicated than that,"she said, "not as neat.

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?" "I don't even know what language that is.

I want something from her, but I don't know what it is. I guess that means sex.

Maybe next year is the year. Maybe last year.

What Tarquinius Superbus said in the garden by means of the poppies, the son understood but the messenger did not.

Niemand weiß eine Medaille am Rand anzufassen

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

En esta vida son pocos los momentos que se resuelven con un sí o con un no.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome