Quotes About Ambiguity

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Are you . . . are you the athask? The great one?" "Maybe," said Mogget. "I can't remember." "Mogget

No where, said Merlin quietly, Somewhere. An in-between place.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

We don't know where we're going, but we're not going to stray from familiar paths.

he wasn't sure if it was good and clean or not. He

And doing what is good for you is always the worst thing. Even if it works out all right in the end, it is the worst thing when it first happens—just the way things that seem good for you can turn out bad, bad as dirt.

There were so many variables, so many ways to go wrong.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

I think she's trying. Trying what? She's trying to figure it out. Aren't we all? No, I don't think so.

always squinting around the corner for the future that is already with us, at our ease, elsewhere

It was one of those kinds of looks that changes meaning with time and place.

Words, when compared with feelings, are too concrete, too arbitrary, whereas feelings are richer but more elusive—ambiguous, if you will. Where words are muted, feelings begin.

Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand.

Is that the moon? I have been told it's more fertile.

Until we reach the end of time, we don't know whether something's been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.

It was impossible to say where one gesture ended and the next began.

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having met someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.

Ist das Nein am Ja oder das Ja am Nein schuld?

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?