Quotes About Ambiguity

You know you've made it in D.C. when someone says that--"It isn't clear what he does"--about you.

Python's super is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you're going to get!

to those places where the shadows of the future fall most darkly across the present.

Ambiguity is more convincing than certainty.

trying to establish the boundary between an irresistible impulse and an impulse not resisted was like trying to determine when twilight ended and dusk began.

The language-based portion of the brain (the left frontal cortex) "gets" the joke by recognizing the ambiguity, incongruity, and surprise of the humor. The emotional areas of the brain (such as the amygdala) appreciate the humor and trigger laughter.

every time men try to grasp something consolingly, sturdily, essentially masculine, it all too easily transforms into its opposite.

I can navigate the canals of self-delusion, say, like nobody's business. The less certain something is, the more I understand it; the less tangible it is, the more readily my fingers grasp it. Just give me a little shove down the byways of regret, and I'm in my element. Which

And yet Nothing here is certain;

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?