Quotes About Ambiguity

It probably doesn't mean anything.

That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond.

So Grumwald felt his way was, if not firmly paved, at least densely pebbled, and that was as good a start as one could wish for.

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn't even imagine.

There is a (slight) chance that I might be going to hell.

He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.

Il n'est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui vont suivre ; quelques-uns seuls savoureront ce fruit amer sans danger.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

futilidad que las animaban.

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

But as well as copy-shop piracy, there is another kind of "taking" that is more directly related to the Internet. That taking, too, seems wrong to many, and it is wrong much of the time. Before we paint this taking "piracy," however, we should understand its nature a bit more. For the harm of this taking is significantly more ambiguous than outright copying, and the law should account for that ambiguity, as it has so often done in the past.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

One never knows, do one?

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.

The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

A good story is at its best when the line between truth and fiction remains ambiguous.