Quotes About Ambiguity

'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in the world, and guess what? Mom kind of likes him!' And that's the end.

This is what I hate about dating - when you just don't know where you stand. I'm pretty honest, I'll say, 'Hey I don't know what's going on,' but I don't like the game of it. Like, do we like each other? Great, well let's explore that.

A picture can hide as much as it reveals.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy.

Of all useless things a knowledge of the future seems to me the most useless, for what are you to do with a thing before it exists? Such a knowledge could only bewilder you as to the right way to take—would make you see double instead of single.

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies something not desirable...In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

At night all cats are grey.

A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field.

Prestige, the breath of life, is itself nebulous.

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not.

He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'.

I HAD learned early in my career that one can do wrong against one's will, and before long I also learned that one can do wrong without ever discovering what one has done or why it was wrong. There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that

Le creature di fuori gurdavano dal maiale all'uomo dall'uomo al maiale e ancora dal maiale all'uomo, ma già era loro impossibile distinguere fra i due.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

No había duda de la transformación ocurrida en las caras de los cerdos. Los animales asombrados, pasaron su mirada del cerdo al hombre, y del hombre al cerdo; y, nuevamente, del cerdo al hombre; pero ya era imposible distinguir quién era uno y quién era otro.

D??ar?daki hayvanlar, bir domuzdan bir insana, bir insandan bir domuza, gene bir domuzdan tekrar bir insana bakt?lar. Fakat hangisinin domuz, hangisinin insan oldu?unu bilmek imkan? kalmam??t?.

You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark.

?ujte i po?ujte, pravda i krivda su se oduvijek ?inile sasvim jednostavno shvatljive, no granica izme?u pravde i krivde ?esto je zamagljena i vidljiva samo onima koji s njima manipuliraju.

Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning "to quack like a duck." Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided