Quotes About Ambiguity

Mutno je sve to u nama, draga moja dobra Beatrice, nevjerojatno mutno.

The anonymous black male is usually an ambiguous figure who arouses the utmost caution and is generally considered dangerous until he proves that he is not.

Only fools are positive.

Going back to Walter's house had been like visiting a cemetery where there were no tidy tombstones recording beginnings and endings but only question marks over the graves.

I had half a feeling that he might suddenly savage me in a bear hug under glass arcade. When he was disgruntled, you never knew how he would vent it.

Good and evil have come out of the same thread. Simply, because all demons were once considered angels. They use the same powers, but differ on intentions.

I am an author, engineer and entrepreneur all at the same time. I am, therefore, nothing and everything at the same time.

To tell a lie is to recognize that all truths are half-truths. There can be no pure truth or lie, they are identical twins who cannot be separated.

In the Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, the reader tries to reconstruct the past through participants and witnesses to that past, but what results is a blurred, ambiguous fiction within another fiction that recounts past events in accord with individual perspectives and interests. In this case, reality becomes fiction not only because the novelist fictionalized it but because the acts of remembering are so deformed or willfully mendacious that it is itself a fiction.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

Thus (a) understanding the world, (b) understanding reality, and (c) understanding myself all threaten to collapse into a morass, a smog of unknowing, of not even knowing what "knowing" itself might mean.

The fruit in the garden was not about knowledge, but about not knowing, about looking into a face and having no idea whether you should kiss it or strike it. Hell is a thousand such small abysses.

Mercants aren't known to be assassins." "Could be because we're very, very good at it

I said I would kiss you. I never said where I would kiss you." [...] "A kiss between two people is, by definition, on the lips," she argued. [...] "But this isn't about two people kissing. It's me kissing you .

Nothing is ever black and white, kitten," he reminded her, allowing his claws to slice out to touch her skin. "I can use my claws to protect, but I can use the same claws to rip out an enemy's throat.

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

They were walking along a roadway of great slabs of stone set down one after another, the beginning and end of which they could take in at a glance, a road rising from and heading toward nowhere now. "You can't get there from here," William said, using a Down East accent. "Anymore." Maine, they thought of Maine, then. Evidently this truncated road could still carry them as far away and as long ago as that.

Who am I, in French? I really don't know -- a bit of everything, perhaps.

Decidedly, the more I think about these things, the more at sea I feel.

I never really knew her," I said. "But you loved her," Ida answered, and again I wasn't sure if she meant that as an accusation or comfort. Was it less important or more important to know someone than to love them?

We're only pretending everything is normal because we don't know what else to do.

Allie says: Are you trying to tell me there's literally no right choice here? The voice says: There's never been a right choice, honeybun. The whole idea that there are two things and you have to choose is the problem.

There's never been a right choice, honeybun. The whole idea that there are two things and you have to choose is the problem.

Good and evil." I chuckle under my breath. "Such binary thinking. So simplistic. So boring. Everything is shades of gray, Emery. There is no such thing as good people or evil people. There are simply people. And some of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get what we want. I don't think you're one of them. Do you understand what I'm telling you?