Quotes About Ambiguity

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

"That's what." —She

We know not which stone the scorpion lurks under.

...there is not a man in the world who can tell to-day what he will do to-morrow.

Is a smile a question? Or is it the answer?

The tickets might be returned perhaps, but where would she go?

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

I'm not at all sure yet. I'm absolutely

You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.

And I could go on doing it, walking the convoluted border between meaningless happiness and meaningless despair. Maybe I was lucky; maybe the best way to cling to that zone was to see clearly what lay on either side.

And by that remarkable fact there hangs . . . a story. This ambiguity was not a historical accident; it was, in fact, the whole point of the American founding. An adequate history of Christianity and America ought to be built around the story of this ambiguity. And quite a story it is. We might call it the "cooperative founding" story, because Christianity and its spiritual enemies created America together.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

Even worse, however, was that the soldiers hardly knew whom they were fighting, and not only because distinguishing resistance fighters from the native civilians was next to impossible.

Maybe she loved me, maybe not – who knows? Not even the gods can see into a human heart – it's that dark.

Art doesn't explain itself.

Was that you or the duck?

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.

our generation hasn't made any meaningful contribution to the field. We have promoted atheism, displayed agnosticism (which amounts to an ambiguous shoulder shrug), or, in most cases, been eerily silent.

Et puis, vous savez très bien que le succès repose sur un malentendu.

Pos los de Zaragoza estamos con los de acá.» Táctica de supervivencia: la ambigüedad.

The only thing I'm certain of is that uncertainty is the hardest thing in life to endure.

He wrestled with himself, like Jacob . . . like every leader ever to set foot on this earth. It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.