Quotes About Ambiguity

Debilidad o fuerza. No sabes a dónde vas ni por qué vas, entra en todas partes, responde a todo. Como si fueras un cadáver ya no te podrán matar.» A la mañana tenía una mirada tan extraviada y un aspecto tan muerto que aquellos que encontré quizá no me hayan visto.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

También ésta es la historia de mi vida, pensó, o parte de ella: buscar un taxi de madrugada, oliendo a mujer o a noche perdida, sin que una cosa contradiga la otra.

Con rusos y con mujeres nunca se sabe.

El mundo está empedrado con preguntas sin respuesta.

noche es neutral, se dijo. No toma partido por uno ni por otros, y ayuda a quien la pone de su lado. A quien la utiliza.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.

What a lousy world, even Lucifer has to resort to the small print.

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed.

Alekk turned back to me. There was a hint of softness in his eyes, but as he gripped my wrist it disappeared.

Slip me a piece of paper with 'Yes or No' on it, and I'll be the one to circle 'or' as my answer.

Sometimes we need to seek the unknown, without really knowing where we are heading.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Buras? ne fabrikas? beyefendi? - Vallahi iyice bilemiyorum ama, galiba... makinelere filan bak?l?rsa, bir makine fabrikas? olacak.

Not everyone is glad I'm back. As for what I'm looking for?" He shook his head. "I guess I'll know when I find it.

People use the word "goal" when they are talking about aspirations or outcomes. If someone says "goal," you can't be sure what they are talking about since the word is ambiguous.

People use the word "goal" when they are talking about aspirations or outcomes. If someone says "goal," you can't be sure what they are talking about since the word is ambiguous. For that reason, "goal" is not part of the vocabulary in Behavior Design. Use either "aspiration" or "outcome" for precision.

There is a cunning, which we in England call, the turning of the cat in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. And to say truth, it is not easy, when such a matter passed between two, to make it appear from which of them it first moved and began.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.