Quotes About Ambiguity

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

The sign red "Sky and Celery." Closer, it read "Ski and Cyclery.

They also reminded me of a story Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher included in one of his speeches about the early nineteenth-century French diplomat Talleyrand and his archrival, Prince Metternich of Austria. When Talleyrand died, Metternich was reported to have said, "I wonder what he meant by that?" It seemed that no matter what I said or how plainly I said it, the markets tried to divine some hidden meaning.

Weeks passed with no word, and I became convinced that I would be staying at the CEA.

Whether Wells would return to the negotiations, and if so on what terms, was unclear.

Or was it better to maintain ambiguity, as we did, which suggested we still had the capacity to carry out future interventions? I don't know.

In making the decisions we made in March 2008, we could not know all that would transpire.

I was as reassuring as I could be, but I was not in a position to offer guarantees, implicit or otherwise.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

No--no other man is cursed With such doubleness of eye, They can hunger, they can thirst, But they know for what and why.

We heard the shots in the night But nobody knew next day what the trouble was And a man must go to his work.

Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.

Vreunul ar fi considerat-o femeie privit? prin sticl? de micÅŸorare, iar altul feti?? cu privire de adolescent?. Necunoscând-o, te întrebai dac? e un progres uimitor sau o întârziere lamentabil?.

The East is a career.

All cats are gray in the dark.

All cats are grey in the dark.

people who read short stories love endings that make them want to gargle with Drano or nosedive off a skyscraper. But

I find the answers aren't so clear Wish I could find a way to disappear

I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.

I'm inspired by Prince on every level; the whole androgynous thing, the ambiguity in his gender and his foundation - it's amazing. That's the way I think about clothes, in relation to my personality and my life. It's just an extension of who I am, like a song.

I'm a relatively unfocused person.

I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.

I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means.

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.