Quotes About Ambiguity

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

Do you still think I'm the good guy?

You never know whether something will be good.

The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.