Quotes About Ambiguity

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

It would be awful. It would be brilliant.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot." –Paul Theroux

There is no universal path to success.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where …" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. —LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland The

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where …" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. —LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland

What to read? Any good novel enlivens our ability to think about ambiguous situations and judge the intentions of others.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Tu come va? - Bene. A parte che sto male, bene.

Il futuro è una scatola vuota in cui metti tutte le tue illusioni.

Todavía no sabía lo que era el amor ni si estaba enamorado de ella, pero cada vez que pensaba en ella sentía algo que no sentía salvo cuando lo sentía... No sabía por qué, ni qué significaba todo eso, ni qué debía hacer al respecto. Pero tratar de no sentirlo, tratar de que desapareciera, ahora le parecía algo profundamente equivocado.

Doubt can lead you where certainty never will.

We were not somewhere between success and failure; we were elsewhere.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

On the set, you do a movie shoot, you go, 'OK, was that OK, how was that?' You dont know, you're not sure.

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.