Quotes About Ambiguity

He was, Sadler thought glumly, rather in the position of a man in a darkened coal cellar, looking for a black cat that might not be there. What was worse, to make the analogy more accurate he would have to be a man who didn't know what a cat looked like, even when he saw one.

Las líneas borrosas y confusas, los colores inciertos y opacos demostraban que, si el artista no conocía su meta, las herramientas más milagrosas no eran capaces de lograrla.

C?ci, deÈ™i era st?pânul lumii, nu era foarte sigur ce trebuia s? fac? în continuare, Dar avea el s? se gândeasc? la ceva".

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.

I'm not certain what you mean by that last bit," I said at last. "As for the first, you said 'until last year.' Does that mean that Lady Tamara has someone else in view?" "But of course," Nee said blandly. "The Marquis of Shevraeth." I laughed all the way up the steps into the Residence.

I will not put a name to what has no name

the gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable.

The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent.

Change layover the stairs and the kitchen and the garden like fog.

Tod Donald rarely did anything voluntarily, or with planning, or even with intent acknowledged to himself; he found himself doing one thing, and then he found himself doing another, and that, as he saw it, was the way one lived along, never deciding, never helping.

I will not put a name to what has none.

don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Do you think that woman really means to make us a soufflé? Here is certainly a soufflé dish, and eggs and cheese—

Dunque alla fine mi svelo: sono un mascalzone, per aver creato alla leggera, e un malvagio, per aver distrutto senza pietà. Non ho scusanti.

What it was like before then, whether its personality was molded by the people who lived here, or the things they did, or whether it was evil from its start are all questions I cannot answer.

Everything is thrown into relief, lit in a Hopperesque late-afternoon glow, the one-sided illumination both revealing and casting a long shadow.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity

Woman ... what does she want?

For those particular illusions there may well have been a past; it is problematic, however, if there is now much of a future.

Bazen bir puro, sadece bir purodur.

As I left the Dayaks I felt torn. They had been endlessly welcoming to me, but they were also openly admitting involvement in, and responsibility for, mass killing. It reinforced what I had found during the previous decade, when I had been investigating terrorism, arms smuggling and organised crime, which was that situations are rarely clear-cut, hardly ever black and white, and good people can do bad things, while bad people can definitely do good. Humans are just so damn complicated.

the inherent properties of matter start to become impossibly ambiguous.