Quotes About Ambiguity

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

'Awake' was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn't know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Maybes. Possibles. Don't knows.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

for all the ambiguities of Vietnam, all the mysteries and unknowns, there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe. Still

and for all the ambiguities of Vietnam, all the mysteries and unknowns, there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

C'etait impossible de savoir ci c' etait le froid ou la faim.

Une de ses mains, ouverte, se balançait, paume en l'air, paume en bas, dans un curieux geste fataliste. Ça va et ça vient, semblait dire cette main, le bon et le mauvais, la vie et la mort, la joie et l'horreur, il ne faut s'étonner de rien.

The more we analyze, the more ambiguous things become.

Being a person means never being sure that you're one.

Simplicity, clarity, complexity, and ambiguity are not mutually exclusive states in language; the sensitive typographer is one who can manifest these states in the right mix by controlling the elements at his or her disposal.

You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to me, and the same as today, I do wonder, will I be able to say my love to you? - Gin Ichimaru awww

It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn't come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but always implied to be suspect.

It described a horse without telling the listener how he intended to use the horse.