Quotes About Ambiguity

of all this?" Gilpin

Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.

Sometimes I feel it's his personal game, that he's in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability.

I love that I am a woman with booby traps.

Is that wrong? I don't even know anymore.

She is the darkness.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

My guess is, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Crows

Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?' 'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing?just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it could be anything.' 'Which it isn't,' I remind him. 'Exactly! The nothing becomes something because of how you react to it!

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. It's as if we were working together on the same statue, cutting it out of each other's misery. But I don't even know the design.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal

The ambiguity was that attraction.

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after feminist politics and the age of the New Man … no one knows what's going on anymore' (Sierz 2001: 191). This

And she supposed—the furrowed face would bloom again—that it was a very common human predicament. To be at a loss, not to know what to do with yourself.

Willie Stark's eternal rule: There is always something.

Complexity offers refuge from choice, and thus from action. In most situations, most of us would prefer to do nothing. Sic transit gloria mundi.

How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?

I want to like Helen Flynn, but there might not be anything there to actually like.

With Christianity, it seems, there is always the double-edged sword.

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

It is a no that means maybe, and the more passionate the no, the more definite the maybe.