Quotes About Ambiguity

Life is very long, unless it is not.

We are not quite short stories. At

Staring into the half light, the queen struggles with wants and needs to which she can give no names. It is not the willow she desires, nor the rose. It is something else…something that eludes her.

Did it matter whether I was a bad hamster or a good hamster? I was still running on a wheel to nowhere.

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns.

Here was a dyed-in-the-brine Cape Cod, Massachusetts, man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag and used his slain brother's gilded connections to help win a Senate seat.

When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn't know which way any of them will go.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.

I say it's impossible to understand the world. He says he's talking about this half-bird half-fish creature, not about the world. I say there's no difference between this half-bird half-fish creature and the world.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

The human lanuage, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

You can't know what's going to happen before it happens.

Dobro pazi nanj," je rekel. In nisem vedel, ali govori meni ali Dennyju. In ?e je govoril meni, je bilo mišljeno kot ukaz ali priznanje? Naj je ?loveški jezik še tako natan?en s svojimi tiso?i besed, je vedno ?udovito nejasen.

Doug Swieteck's brother wouldn't even come near me, and I would foil Mrs. Baker's nefarious plan. But

Ask bigger questions. A good rule of thumb is to double down everywhere in your life. If your goal is ten, ask the question: "How can I reach 20?

None of us knows our limits. Borders and boundaries may be clear on a map, but when we apply them to our lives, the lines aren't so apparent.

Portuguese could never make up their minds whether they were haole or not;

Anxiety, unlike real fear, is always caused by uncertainty.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

There are your fog people & your sun people, he said. I said I wasn't sure which kind I was. He nodded. Fog'll do that to you, he said.

Today, she decided to be suitably ambiguous, so you can think whatever you like about her. (Amount of time scheduled for the opinions of others: ZERO) —Suitably Ambiguous

Deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly. —Falling Into Place