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Quotes About Ambiguity

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.
~ Mardy Grothe
Every movie I make. That's my hideout, the place I don't quite understand, but feel most at home.
~ Ang Lee
The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.
~ Anne Sexton
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.
~ Thomas Mann
Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.
~ Rick Yancey
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
~ Billy Collins
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.
~ Jackson Browne
Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.
~ Alice Cooper
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
~ Clarice Lispector
Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.
~ Elizabeth Wein
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
~ Paul Valery
It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
~ Michael Chabon
Hope clouds observation.
~ Frank Herbert
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.
~ Nicole Krauss
...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.
~ Charlie Fletcher
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
~ Rachel Cusk
A world without hope, but no despair
~ Henry Miller
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.
~ Jane Austen
Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.
~ Epicurus
Let's at least hope it's not a gallu. Why? They're not all bad, in a smelly, need-to-be-killed kind of way.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dreams, Ours mysterious Dreams, they can be Reality
~ Erico Quiambao
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
~ George Carlin