Quotes About Ambiguity

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

I can't tell if I'm a good person or I'm faking really well

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.