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Quotes About Ambiguity

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.
~ Noah Baumbach
I'm not like, 'I act.' I'm like, 'I'm kinda floating. I kinda did this movie; it was kinda like going to camp, and I don't really know what any of this means!'
~ Sasha Lane
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
~ Idi Amin
Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.
~ Janet Yellen
And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.
~ Justin Guarini
It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.
~ Kristian Bush
It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.
~ Velveteen Dream
You don't even know are we going to have a career? Are we going to be able to sell records? Are we going to have a label?
~ Jim Root
I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.
~ Nicole Fosse
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.
~ Karen Blixen
I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.
~ Karen Chance
My sometimes friend, sometimes enemy, all the time pain in the ass.
~ Karen Chance
She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon
She wrapper herself in an enigma, there was no other way to keep warm.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The good guys and bad guys aren't as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can't look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.
~ Karen Marie Moning
What are you? "A man with a rope?" "Ha-ha.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Everywhere I looked, I could see only shades of gray. Black and white were nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we tried to judge things and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, were as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We could only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we could no longer see the light.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He's disturbingly sexual to men and women alike in a way that sets your teeth on edge. With Barrons you aren't sure if you're going to get fucked or turned inside out and left a new unrecognizable person adrift with no moorings on a see with no bottom and no rules.
~ Karen Marie Moning