Quotes About Ambiguity

When you come to a fork in the road, take it - Yogi Berra

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

Recuerda que es imposible hablar de manera que no se te malinterprete. Siempre habrá alguien que lo haga.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

It's not that simple." "Ah! That phrase is Male for 'I'm afraid to.

She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.

Clarity attracts and confusion repels.

I like when you look at me like you can't figure me out. You're considering getting to know me, but you're not sure I'm worth your time.

when the English say 'Oh really? How interesting!' they might well mean 'I don't believe a word of it, you lying toad'. Or they might not. They might just mean 'I'm bored and not really listening but trying to be polite'. Or they might be genuinely surprised and truly interested. You'll never know.

Every social situation is fraught with ambiguity, knee-deep in complication, hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive-aggression and paranoid confusion.

Sometimes the best life is a complicated one.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

Molly watched the pale water, changing, always changing, and always the same, and she could feel him near, not touching, not speaking. Thin clouds chased across the face of the swelling moon. Soon it would be full, the harvest moon, the end of Indian summer. The moon was so cleanly outlined, so unambiguous, she thought. A misshapen bowl, like an artifact made by inexpert hands that would improve with practice.

The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here.

Er zijn tijden waarin je iets wat je wilt verbergen maar het beste vol in het zicht kunt zetten.

Okay, he says. They both say it, all the time. I've finally started to figure out what it means. It means "yes" and "all right". It also means less than all right, and a begrudging no. It means everything, and nothing, all at once.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—'important' if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and 'serious' expresses what I mean much better

As if all of us existed only in the bondage of the will From inside each autonomy grows the light of grace; when it is not murderous; as if the Graces existed, were alive, in their ambiguity, their infinite delicacy . . .

Ad?n? koyamad???m?z her ?eyin fakiri oldu?umuz o kadar do?ru ki.

Pentru mine, ca b?rbat, femeia e stranie ?i str?in? (atât de stranie încât sfâr?e?te prin a deveni "mister")

revolved around Macbeth

Life is very long, she thought, unless it is not.