Quotes About Ambiguity

You can't say 'if this didn't happen then that would have happened' because you don't know everything that might have happened. You might think something'd be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can't say 'If only I'd…' because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you'll never know. You've gone past. So there's no use thinking about it.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!

He'd wanted changes. It was just that he'd wanted things to stay the same, as well.

There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ?

Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.

That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.

They represented what people called the international community. And like all uses of the word community, you were never quite sure what or who it was.

the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.

Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.

she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter...

You're wondering whether I really would cut your throat, panted Magrat. I don't know either. Think of the fun we could have together, finding out

This was the time, when night wasn't quite over but day hadn't quite begun, when thoughts stood out bright and clear and without disguise.

When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.

sometimes you get to a point in your life where you don't know what you want to do tomorrow, you just know you want to be alive somewhere!

She was so confused. No, she wasn't.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Rosy-fingered dawn indeed! This dawn was wearing gray gloves.

Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

You know when people ask sometimes what are you doing, and you say just something to them.

As a creative person, you have to keep going. There's no defined career path. There's no security.