Quotes About Ambiguity

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

That man has no shadow.

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.