Quotes About Ambiguity

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

I know well what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. Time was when a car company made cars, a mining company dug mines. It's not like that anymore.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.

Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.

I may not be evil, but that doesn't mean I'm a saint.

If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn't they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?

The physicist Niels Bohr was fond of saying, "Prediction is very hard to do. Especially about the future

The gentlemen in Berlin are gambling on me as if I were a prize hen. As for myself, I don't even know whether I'm going to lay another egg.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! And generally he's unable to say what he's going to do this same evening.

Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would still be just a minor problem. The bad thing is that he's sometimes suddenly mortal, and that's the whole point! And he can't possibly say what he's going to be doing the same evening.

Jak to si? mog?o sta?? - machinalnie zapyta?a Ma?gorzata, wspominaj?c jednocze?nie szepty w trolejbusie. -A diabli wiedz? jak! - nonszalancko odpowiedzia? rudy.

Who is official and who is unofficial these days? It all depends on your point of view. It's all so vague and changeable, Nikanor Ivanovich. Today I'm unofficial, tomorrow, hey presto! I'm official! Or maybe vice-versa – who knows?

And, maybe, I will die tomorrow! . . . And not one being on this earth will have ever understood me totally. Some thought of me as worse, some as better, than I actually am . . . Some will say "he was a good fellow," others will say I was a swine. Both one and the other would be wrong. Given this, does it seem worth the effort to live? And yet, you live, out of curiosity, always wanting something new . . . Amusing and vexing!

avanço sempre mais decidido quando não sei o que me espera

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.