Quotes About Ambiguity

Whenever you get there, there is no there there.

All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

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.

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. Delicious Ambiguity.

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. Delicious Ambiguity.

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. Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity, as Joanna said.

Gilda's book ends with her acceptance of what I had called, in working with her, "delicious ambiguity," the freedom that comes with simply not knowing the outcome of every happening or happenstance.

For her uncles, she realizes, it is as if ever since she left the country for New York City—for nothing! not to send money home but just to "galavant!"—ever since she left she has relinquished her right to her memory of home, and she should not be left to her devices or she will bumble through the nation like a witless tourist who cannot speak its languages, though in fact she code-switches in three of them, puns in five, makes money in two, and dreams in one.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come . . . There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. —Milan Kundera

Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

Lumea ni se pare r?u întocmit?; viaÈ›a - lipsit? de grandoare, gândirea ne face impresia unei intenÈ›ii r?mase la jum?tatea drumului, unui gest abia schiÈ›at, unui desen negru È™i confuz pe care nimeni nu l-a dezvoltat în fresc?.

Sunt suspendat între cer ÅŸi p?mânt, prea greoi ca s? m? înalÅ£ spre stele ÅŸi prea eteric ca s? scormonesc în noroi.

To have no particular aim was to open grand possibilities...

I have spent a great deal of time seeking documentary evidence which would support or contradict the Stangls' story of how they, and others like them, escaped from Europe; and the real facts, it turns out, are neither dramatic nor unequivocal; they are complex, ambiguous and merely prove again that in the final analysis, history is not made by organizations, but by individual men, with individual failings, and individual responsibilities

Tu ne contrôles pas les choses qui arrivent, pire, tu n'es même pas capable de savoir si elles sont bonnes ou mauvaises.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

Parts of him were built to be awake before dawn and yearning to be both absolutely still and moving everywhere at once.

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

He took comfort in not knowing about the future.

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

Está rodeado de pessoas esquisitas, as quais realmente não compreendo. Não têm aparência de espertalhões, nem de gente honesta. Às vezes parecem-me honestas, mas não consigo confiar nelas.

First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!