Quotes About Ambiguity

For the important work, the instructions are always insufficient. For the work we'd like to do, the reward comes from the fact that there is no guarantee, that the path isn't well lit, that we cannot possibly be sure it's going to work.

For the important work, the instructions are always insufficient.

Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art.

rape or seduction, he'd take either

Perhaps many of them shared my sentiments, but our options then were black and white, between this and that. The grey area of freedom we longed for existed only in dreams.

every village in this place have a handful of people like you. And it is not easy to tell who is who.

Henry nodded, then flinched when the woman began a high, keening wail. I am thankful that we got here in time, he said. I am beholden to God, and two Hugh de Plucknet for not giving up. I know we won a victory here this night. But I am beginning to see, Uncle, that victories in this war are not what they seem. For what have we truly won? The chance to do it all again on the morrow.

me if you knew something, but you couldn't

Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn't pay well at all.

And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do.

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had nothing to do with rigor mortis.

Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it's always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

But this…this kid wasn't dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)

Let's at least hope it's not a gallu. Why? They're not all bad, in a smelly, need-to-be-killed kind of way.

You think we stand a chance? (Delphine) Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher's, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn)

No surname? Or is Thorn it?" "Thorn is all anyone needs to know about me." "As in thorn up all our collective nether regions," Devyl muttered.

Am I the only human on board this ship?" To her deepest chagrin, he hesitated. And when he finally answered, it wasn't what she wanted to hear and gave her no comfort whatsoever. "Define the word 'human.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

You don't know what life is. You know nothing.

An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.