Quotes About Ambiguity

Nobody really knows what life is about. We're all just trying to make sense of something that doesn't make much sense.

And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

This isn't a script, Julian says. It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.

I want to go back, Daniel says, quietly, with effort. Where? I ask, unsure. There's a long pause that kind of freaks me out and Daniel finishes his drink and fingers the sunglasses he's still wearing and says, I don't know. Just back.

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?' 'Why not?' She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams. 'Because... I don't know,' she sighs. I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest.

Who Dunnit?' profoundly expresses the theme of confusion against a funky groove, and what makes this song so exciting is that it ends with its narrator never finding anything out at all.

I realize I have nothing to say to Trent Burroughs as I tell him, "I've been in New York the last four months." New Age Christmas music fails to warm up the chilly vibe. I'm suddenly unsure about everything.

It's really weird and I'm experiencing a spontaneous kind of internal sensation, I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus

piso-lhe o pé, que na verdade é um coto, fazendo-o derrubar a caneca, espalhando os trocados por toda a calçada. Fiz isso de propósito? O que você acha? Ou fiz isso sem querer?

Siento que me estoy moviendo hacia delante a la vez que alejándome de algo, y todo es posible (American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis)

With Constant, the chief articulator of his generation's liberal ideas, we see the beginnings of classical liberalism's 'state-hatred,' which, after the 18th century's ambiguous attitude, marks its theory to the present day," noted modern libertarian and historian of classical liberalism Ralph Raico.

Futur is a threat, not a promise

Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night.

But there's this thing in her voice, like what my mom called "doublespeak." Saying one thing and meaning another. Aunt Nora told me it was leftover from English rule. She said, "That's the only good thing to ever come of colonialism, Kevin. The Irish can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.

Ethics is about how we inhabit uncertainty, together.

It seems that most of the decisions we make in life are similar to backing up in the night and hitting something, and then getting out to see what it was.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

What do you suppose we would do, I said conversationally, if we ever had sex? I mean, what would we call each other? Captain and Walker? Morrison and Detective? Or would we just find excuses to not call each other anything?

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was. An obstacle was there that changed the pattern of my actions and the manner of my life. An obstacle was often there to stop me when I'd begin to speak. From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing— from these alone will I be understood.

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.