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Quotes About Ambiguity

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
~ John Dewey
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
~ John Steinbeck
I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
~ Pablo Picasso
Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion
~ Kin Hubbard
Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
~ Jojo Moyes
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.
~ Todd Solondz
Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my "999 (or Nick Leeson)" account.
~ Jon Edgell, Bust
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
~ Sam Peckinpah
I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.
~ Michal Rovner
Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.
~ Robin Lakoff
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...
~ Emma Lazarus
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
~ Paula Poundstone
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
~ Jim Jarmusch
Life is never free of contradictions
~ Manmohan Singh
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
~ Samuel Beckett
How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.
~ Jon Stewart
Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
~ Gayle Forman
There are things better left unknown.matters better left untoldand things better left unsettled.
~ Mark Verndick
These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
~ Felix Mendelssohn