Quotes About Ambiguity

My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.

The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to a reduced rate of corporation tax of 12.5 % by 2018.

Sometimes, films that you do with a lot of care and look good at the time of signing may not work out for some reason or other.

Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.

Not every cloud has a silver lining.

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

I can change my appearance by doing simple things. People ask, 'What's your ethnicity? Are you part Asian? I can't figure you out.' That gives me range with the roles I play.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

When people ask me where I am from, with artificial simplicity, they don't understand how convoluted an answer it may sound.

one never knows, do

It's possible." Just. "She could have sent him the original." "You said she didn't make any phone calls or mail anything." "I said I didn't know that she did.

Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

too, though she felt less sure

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac .

I wanted to know, and I didn't want to know. I was all hung up in limbo.

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing.

I'll take nine steps and look up. Whatever my eyes light on, that's my sign. I saw a crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. I couldn't decide what part of the scene I represented: the plants about to be rescued from the bugs or the bugs about to be murdered by the spray. There was an off chance I was really the airplane zipping over the earth creating rescue and doom everywhere I went.

What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty?

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

To prevent the enemy from fathoming one's intentions is of the first importance.

Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. 4. Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.