Quotes About Ambiguity

una botella de vino blanco, pero el vino blanco no era blanco, sino dorado: el vino es luz aglutinada por la humedad.

Encruzilhada, conflito, alternativa, dúvida, dilema, beco sem saída.

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

Que quede bien claro: el alma, como le dicen, es, pareciera, no cristalina sino pantanosa. Los motivos que la inducen, en esta cuadra, a dejarse llevar, como los llaman, al juego y a la exaltación, en la siguiente, con la misma arbitrariedad, y en forma no menos imprevisible, la sumen, para usar una vez más la expresión, en una intensa melancolía. En todo caso pareciera, ¿no?

El lenguaje de la política -en contra de sus propias intenciones- suele ser impreciso y ambiguo, de ahí el riesgo de su transformación, por pereza mental o por motivos utilitarios, en etiquetas o fórmulas estereotipadas, en eslóganes publicitarios o simples estribillos que no dicen nada.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

There's a fine line between criminality and genius." -Dan Cahill

Another feature we lose in going from logic to uncertainty is incrementality.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

He walked noisily, like a fish.

D]ie spezielle Müdigkeit, die jeden befällt, der sich anhören muss, was gut und böse, richtig und falsch sei, obwohl niemand mehr die Grundlagen dieser Unterscheidung zu erklären oder auch nur zu benennen vermag. Moral dient der Herbeiführung von Berechenbarkeit.

Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.

He wasn't sure how he ought to feel about this. On the other hand . . . boiled meat!

That seemed to cover a lot of life, he'd come to realize. Proving something right wasn't the same as proving the opposite wrong.

Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it's this kind of crazy thing that you always know you're going to finish school inevitably, but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.

You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they are more advanced Christians, or they don't have to do what the bishop says.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.