Quotes About Ambiguity

in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ...

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

The hand that records is also what makes everything unclear.

So what were people getting so excited about? What was this symphony saying to them? We are still arguing about that a whole human lifetime later. Audiences are still trying to decipher the codes in Shostakovich's symphonies, trying to see under the masks he wore to the true face we expect to find beneath. "It's very difficult to speak through a mask," as the writer Viktor Shklovsky said, but "only a few can play themselves without it.

When I was hired, I was urged] not to seek a clear definition of what I'd be doing because that would also make it clear what I was not supposed to do. Be careful not to define yourself out of an interesting job.

He laughed lightly, but his eyes told another story. Ambury could smile ever so amiably while the daggers within his wit sliced one to shreds.

I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

Even here, behind the darkness of my eyelids, I cannot name the thing I hope for.

Nothing she says has a single meaning, nor a single intention, yet she is steady. She knows herself.

She was a poisoner at heart; she wanted to be sure I came as villain, not savior.

I forget about the god, why I have fallen, why my feet stick in the same crevices I have already climbed. Perhaps this is all I do, I think, demented -- climb walls and fall from them. And this time when I look up, the god is not smiling.

Would I be skimmed milk or a harpy? A foolish gull or a villainous monster?

Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile.

Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

I talked with Junior Allen. He didn't have his mind on it. He was crouched in the brush, and he could taste lamb, and he was alerted for the first shy sound of the little hoofs coming along the trail. I gently and indirectly advanced the idea of my coming along, and he firmly closed the door. He got up and sprang nimbly onto the dock, snapped the weak dock light on, checked his lines, adjusted a fender and came aboard again, restless.

For perhaps the first time in my life I appreciated the corrosive effects of total uncertainty.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry.

Yapt???n?z ÅŸeyler, daha önce yapt?klar?n?z? belirsizleÅŸtirir.

It's like being halfway through the book. I can't just throw it in the dustbin.

A whole world of horror is contained in the process of definition.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

Reagan Declares Firmness on Gulf; Plans are Unclear Isn't that classic? I don't mean the semicolon; I mean, isn't that just what the world needs? Unclear firmness! That is typical American policy: don't be clear, but be firm!

Well, you finally got me, Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestling mat, wondering who had gotten whom.