Quotes About Ambiguity

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.

I think most Minnesotans are in a grey zone politically.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

A door must either be shut or open.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

We are not certain, we are never certain.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this, our life!

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.