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Quotes About Ambiguity

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go forward..You give it your all and sometimes things happen, but
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
This archetypal drama is renewed every day, in every generation, in every institution, and in every decisive moment of personal life. Faced with such a choice, choose anxiety and ambiguity, for they are developmental, always, while depression is regressive. Anxiety is an elixir, and depression a sedative. The former keeps us on the edge of our life, and the latter in the sleep of childhood.
~ James Hollis
democracy flourishes when we express our doubts over a policy, over the motives of our leaders. Compare this with those who flee troubling ambiguity by wrapping themselves and their vehicles in flags, drown honest debate with chauvinistic clamor, and encourage a pseudo-patriotism that ill serves its nation by silencing serious dialogue that might lead to more refined judgment.
~ James Hollis
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable.
~ James Howe
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.
~ James Joyce
But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.
~ James Joyce
Broken Eggs will poursuive bitten Apples for where theirs is Will there's his Wall
~ James Joyce
Some undefined sorrow was hidden in the hearts of the protagonists as they stood in silence beneath the leafless trees and when the moment of farewell had come the kiss, which had been withheld by one, was given by both.
~ James Joyce
It darkles, (tinct, tint) all this our funnaminal world. Yon marshpond by ruodmark verge is visited by the tide. Alvemmarea! We are circumveiloped by obscuritads. Man and belves frieren.
~ James Joyce
Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!
~ James Joyce
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
~ James Joyce
slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.
~ James Joyce
With a pansy for the pussy in the corner.
~ James Joyce
Withasly glints in. Andecoy glants out. They ramp it a little, a lessle, a lissle. Then rompride round in rout.
~ James Joyce
Then I went to a certain nightclub. There were men there—and also women. At least, they looked like women.
~ James Joyce
Sayyessik, Ballygarry. The fourscore soculums are watchyoumaycodding to cooll the skoopgoods blooff.
~ James Joyce
a circuitous way of spreading confusion without offering any information of value.
~ James Lee Burke
Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.
~ James Luceno
She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of smoke.
~ James McBride
I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would... WHAT?
~ James Patterson
I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
~ James Patterson
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
~ James Patterson
were right. You could still be in the wrong
~ James Patterson