Quotes About Ambiguity

I know what my decision is...Which is not to decide.

Sometimes something happens even when nothing happens. Other times nothing happening is exactly what it sound like. I have a friend in the mental-health field who would tell me that at times it can be difficult to tell those two things apart.

Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far

Clinton's desire to kill them was very clear to us early on," recalled one of his senior aides. But he did not commit himself all the way. The first MON he signed in the summer of 1998 authorized covert action aimed at taking bin Laden and his aides into custody for trial. The ambiguous language might have been crafted to assure Janet Reno's support, but Clinton etched his own signature on the memo

He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by the sudden ripple of the string as it dances slowly groundward.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

and at first I couldn't tell if he liked it or not. It was only after I'd finished "Light My Fire" that he sort of yelped and wrestled me to the ground (translation: he liked it). But I pinned him first. (Grin.)

He was neither asleep nor awake, neither this nor that. It was some new state that he was in, some new kind of nonexistence.

Their eyes met again, and this time there were no great answers there, only questions that would never be satisfied. A

What are you working on?" "I'm trying to set up a store to sell baskets of none-of-your-fucking-business at wholesale prices.

Boss, what, exactly, are we doing here?" "Feeling maudlin." "Oh. Good. How long are we planning on doing that?" "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" "What?" "Never mind.

Yes?" she said. "And who might you be?" I bowed, because it seemed the appropriate response. "I might be Jill's friend." I said. "Or I might be an Israeli terrorist looking for PLO supporters. Or possibly a burglar trying to steal your jewels to support my laudanum habit. Or even a neighbor complaining about the volume. That is "Heart of Uncle," isn't it? It really ought to be louder.

It is as if I have changed in some way, but I can't tell what it is, or if it will fade with time.

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.

If you were on a bus trying to go east in a maze of dirt roads in a large valley, you might not be able to tell your direction from moment to moment. If someone took a series of snapshots, sometimes the bus might be facing north, or south, or even west, even though all the while this is a journey to the east.

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

It's interesting to see all these guys keep calling me out after they win. I don't know whether it's a slap in the face or just respect. I don't know. I have no idea. I can't tell what to make of it.

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

I'd heard Dallas described as a 'big, small town' before, even before I moved. As a kid from an actual small town in Iowa, I was never sure what to make of the description.

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

Grey characters don't only mean broody characters. A totally smitten lover boy can be equally grey if written that way.

Generally when there's a lot of smoke... there's just a whole lot more smoke.