Quotes About Ambiguity

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Gli passò per la testa, in quei omenti, che anche lui avrebbe potuto sparire nel nulla. Si trattava solo di capire che forma dare a quel nulla.

Ni un mar, entonces, ni un canal, ni el camino hacia la riqueza. Tal vez ni siquiera un río, sino más bien un estuario. Es decir, resumiendo, un cúmulo de malentendidos, una suma de equivocaciones, un error perpetuo expresado sobre el agua. Por una derivación impensada de tantas y tantas fallas, existe la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Y existimos los que la habitamos.

For a choice is always a choice among possible alternatives; and it is a rare agent for whom everything is possible. The special agony of this situation is that none of the possibilities is even harmless.

I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap.

That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

So is this good or bad or what?" "It's 'or what

Ugh, this was going to be fun, in the not at all fun sense.

I have a plan." This was true. "I just don't know whether it will actually work or not." This, unfortunately, was also true.

Kai groaned under his breath. He had been hoping for one dramatic masterstroke that would take down the whole bridge and maybe make him feel better about his continued existence.

I couldn't pin down what was bothering me. Scan was negative, and this far away from the team there was no ambient sound except the whisper through the air system. Maybe it was the lack of security camera access, but I'd been in worse places with no cameras. Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal? Whatever, there was no knowledge base here to look it up.

It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

acid has no implicit moral direction.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

No phantom of the future cast a shadow upon our sunny path

And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?

Auf jeden Fall werde ich, oder wenigstens will ich, wenn nicht, dann doch, allerdings müsste ich, und kann nicht.

It's easy to be definite if you haven't faced a situation.

leading two separate lives, refusing to choose one over the other. He'd stolen the best of both worlds: wealth and

That was the thing about signs, they were open for interpretation. Meaning was in the eye of the beholder.

Where do shadows fall when there is only light.

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.