Quotes About Ambiguity

I realized Mam was right. It was nothing to do with prophecy. You could see it in Alice's eyes. She'd always be somewhere in between, neither wholly good nor wholly bad. But wasn't that true of all of us? Not one of us was perfect.

I nodded sagely. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Masur looked at me quizzically. "Dan Quayle said that," I added. Whether he actually did or not, I liked the quote.

on Dekens' face. "Possibly.

And our understanding of that motion remains fundamentally paradoxical.

Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.

Sobre los campos, a ambos lados de la carretera, se derramaba la niebla como si fuera plomo derretido, simulando el mar y la inmensidad. Por eso, las sombrereras, las personas, las conversaciones y el coche de punto resultaban tan insustanciales y ridículos. Llegué a creer que en verdad a ambos lados se encontraba el mar y me sorprendió su calma.

Tigerheart: I love you, Dovewing. I will always love you. Twigpaw: Perhaps it was nothing. Perhaps they were just friends.

Why does she look like she's hiding something?

There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

Que yo no sea propietario de un perro significa que todos los demás también pueden ser algo distinto a lo que aparentan ser. Significa que es imposible saber nada.

Toen ik wegging, omhelse ze me even, iets wat, achteraf naar mijn mening, op het randje van een kus geweest kan zijn. Waarschijnlijk was het een afscheidsknuffel. Maar misschien was het een kus

The essence of beauty is in variety and surprise, in richness, ambiguity, and intricacy of detail.

Ambiguity is telling you something important, if only you took it seriously. If you did not quickly dispatch it as a pathology.

I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.

I suppose you know what you're about." "Oh no, I don't," she answered. "I never know what I'm about. If you always do, you miss so much—you get into a solemn habit of trying nothing till you're sure.

They moved with the insouciance of those that have nothing to do, two aimless characters in search of a story that would deign to have them, but not in a hurry to commit to any particular type of narrative.

We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.

vague, very vague.

There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks

THE STRIKING CONTRAST

DiÄŸer serserilerden pek fark? yoktu Kobi'nin. Ä°nsan?n asl?nda çirkin mi yoksa aptal m? olduÄŸuna karar veremediÄŸi tiplerden

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more.

But already there is some ambiguity, for does black designate a "color" that does not reflect light (and if so, why label it a color?), or does black designate the "color" that results in the total absence of light? Without light, no color, and without color, there is only black – and yet black is not a color.