Quotes About Ambiguity

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

I'm bleeding at the knees and choking from smoke and have no idea who these people are or where I'm going, but at least I'm off the hook in terms of the hand jobs.

And they left, neither knowing how close they had come to getting Darkenfloxxedâ"¢ out their wing-wangs.

I just want to say that history, when it arrives, may not look as you expect, based on the reading of history books. Things in there are always so clear. One knows exactly what one would have done.

In a time of danger, the person sounding the paranoid continual alarm will eventually be right. A voice arguing for our complete rightness and the complete wrongness of our enemies, a voice constantly broadening the definition of enemy, relieves us of the burden of living with ambiguity.

The news brought by annunciations not only stays new; it can be unendurable in its ambiguity.

Only language knows no conceptual, no projective finality.

MORAL AMBIGUITIES constitute a fairly stable system of equilibrium

Ya bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.. Ya anlat?labilecek bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.

Franz Kafka'n?n vakti zaman?nda aç?klad??? gibi: Ula??lacak bir amaç vard?r ama yol yoktur; karars?zl?klar?m?za, duraksamalar?m?za yol ad?n? takar?z.

I'm at sea, lieutenant … We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch.

If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful

But as for Thaddeus Drybeck, words fail me!' The Inspector, placing no dependence on this statement, waited for her to continue.

How could they know that a miller's not just as greedy as a hole in the ground, but as slippery as a handful of butter as well?

It was always uncertainty that i feared most.

but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Cloudiness what is cloudiness, is it a lining, is it a roll, is it melting.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer

Because I am so quiet, you don't really know what I'm thinking. You don't know if I'm working hard on my game, you really don't know.

That's just what 'The 100' does. They like to put their characters in a position where no decision is the right one, you know? You have to kind of just hope that it works out.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.