Quotes About Ambiguity

I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, "It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start." I could just "feel" how good it could be. But I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

turns out that feminists don't want equality. What they want is power and the privilege to define ambiguous situations that comes with it.

Did I really want or need to know? What difference would it make if he were dead or alive, since dead or alive I should never see him again? But could I be certain? Was it completely and utterly out of the question for the door to open and for him to walk in? And wasn't I even now listening for his footstep?

background. 5. Rubin's vase

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.

There were discrepancies. Sometimes

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

Each group was required to propose its own "fitness function"—a linear equation that it could use to measure its own impact without ambiguity. For example, a two-pizza team in charge of sending advertising e-mails to customers might choose for its fitness function the rate at which these messages were opened multiplied by the average order size those e-mails generated.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.

Hi," Cole said. "I'm not sure why I'm here." "I know the feeling," the woman said wryly.

I can see what you're up to." "Five foot six inches," Shallan said. "I suspect that's all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.

I didn't say Tvlakv isn't a bastard. He's just a likable bastard." He hesitated, then grimaced. "Those are the worst kind. When you kill them, you end up feeling guilty for it.

He was protecting. He was saving. Yet he was killing. How could something so terrible be so beautiful at the same time?

If people can't tell when I'm being an idiot and when I'm being a genius, perhaps they'll assume my blunders are brilliant political maneuvers.

I sense a very large but. " "Funny, because right in front of me, I see a—" "Watch it.

She wasn't even certain she was Tress anymore, or if she'd become someone else. You could say, in other words, that her state at the moment was distress

What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers?

Easy to dimiss, perhaps, but difficult to hate.

I was pretty sure she was just mimicking me. And to be honest, I didn't know if "she" was a she—weren't slugs, like, both or something?

we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes out perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

A storm is not an object like a box or a tree. Even to the more scientifically-minded, storms are more notion than numbers. When does a drizzle become a downpour, and when does a downpour become a storm? There's no firm line. It's about how you feel.

Well, little in life is absolutely certain