Quotes About Ambiguity

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I'm sober and I'm lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

In my pictures, you never know, that's the mystery. It's just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It's fashion in disguise.

If you try to fail but succeed, which have you done?

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In a matrix structure of the kind prevalent today, thinking two levels up also has the benefit of helping to resolve the dilemmas the matrix naturally creates. The "next level up" may well be ambiguous. Two bosses might point in different directions. Understanding the level above them generally resolves the issue and allows action.

She was looking at me as if I was a painting too, to be examined for symbols and meaning, and she couldn't decide in the end if I really was just a mass of pointless daubs

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

Where are we going? It's not an issue of here or there. And if you ever feel you can't take another step, imagine how you might feel to arrive, if not wiser, a little more aware how to inhabit the middle ground between misery and joy. Trudge on. In the higher regions, where the footing is unsure, to trudge is to survive.

It's not easy, being a terrible person.

This is the way werewolf stories go. Never any proof. Just a story that keeps changing, like it's twisting back on itself, biting its own stomach to chew the poison out.

And life's defining moments are usually played under the shadow of doubt.

The answer to studied ambiguity, that is, being purposefully vague so as to allow for an elastic interpretation or to allow for latitude on a particular doctrine or view, is precision. Precision and clarity, not ambiguity, serve the church best in remaining faithful to its biblical, historic, and confessional roots. R. C. was learning that in 1965 in his own denomination.

Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

People are drawn to religion because for them there is only one thing worse than an ambiguous life, and that is an unambiguous death.

People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur.

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.