Quotes About Ambiguity

So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.

Es mejor saber que una cosa buena va a pasar, como un eclipse, o que te regalen un microscopio por Navidad, que saber que una cosa mala va a pasar, como que te pongan un empaste o tener que ir a Francia. Pero creo que lo peor de todo es no saber si lo que va a pasar es una cosa buena o una cosa mala.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

All great discoveries," the elder Marratta had once said, "are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents." At

How much above zero still produces zero is not known.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.

For my own part, I liked Lady Warminster, although at the same time never wholly at ease in her presence. She was immaculately free from any of the traditional blemishes of a mother-in-law; agreeable always; entertaining; even, in her own way, affectionate; but always a little alarming: an elegant, deeply experienced bird – perhaps a bird of prey – ready to sweep down and attack from the frozen mountain peaks upon which she preferred herself to live apart.

Lovell was an odd mixture of realism and romanticism; more specifically, he was, like quite a lot of people, romantic about being a realist.

This was a glimpse through that mysterious door, once shut, that now seemed to stand ajar. It was as if sounds of far-off conflict, or the muffled din of music and shouting, dimly heard in the past, had now come closer than ever before. Stringham

Genellemeler dizisinden kesinlikler dizisine geçtik. Kesinlikleri yakalay?nca, soruna çözüm getirebilecek bir yol bulabildik. Hemen hemen tüm iletiÅŸim çeÅŸitlerinde izlenecek yol budur. AnlaÅŸmaya giden yolu, kesin bilgi açar. -S?n?rs?z Güç -Soruna çözüm üretebilmek için öncelikle muÄŸlakl?ktan kaç?narak problemi net bir ÅŸekilde ortaya koymak gerekir.

These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.

And then he painted to himself a not untrue picture of the probable miseries of a man who begins life too high up on the ladder, — who succeeds in mounting before he has learned how to hold on when he is aloft.

My dear fellow, I don't think you've the gift of seeing very far. The truth is they don't know what to make of me; — and I don't intend that they shall. I'm playing my game, and there isn't one of 'em understands it except myself. It's no good my sitting here, you know. I shan't be able to move. How am I to get at you if I want anything?

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For example, the ambiguities in a contract will be construed against the party that drafted the document (contra proferentem).

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right. I

Mmm," he said vaguely, trying to sound polite but disinterested.

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take

Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as See--no weapons? But no one could think of anything better.