Quotes About Ambiguity

It was a profession that seemed to fuse compassion and brutality, without having to reveal which was the dominant impulse, as long as both were accompanied by a high degree of precision.

You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

Just as I sat on the fence between two civilizations, so would I now find myself between two classes; and I realized that, in trying to sit on several chairs, one generally lands on the floor.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?

La verdad es que aquí cada uno oye lo que quiere. El lenguaje es interpretativo. Los mensajes varían en el trayecto y nadie se da cuenta o a nadie le importa. Sí es también no o quizás . No es posible aceptar ni rechazar. Nacer es morir. Quedarse es partir.

Manuel Mandeb entró en la niebla y se sintió más tranquilo. Prefería caminar en la cerrazón porque el rumbo era incierto, las ubicaciones discutibles y las apariencias confusas. Mandeb sentía terror ante lo irrefutable, ante las decisiones del amor tomadas, ante lo que ya nunca podría ser de otro modo.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.

Anyone who spotted a weed in a neglected field—a nice wild sorrel, say—and wanted to know whether it had come from a seed that had sprouted in the field, was blown in by the wind, or had been dropped there by a bird, would never, no matter how long they pondered it, reach a conclusion

Yeah," said Jack. "No idea about weather these days.

A liar knows the truth but attempts to hide it. A bullshitter doesn't necessarily know what's true and really doesn't care what's true. That makes it almost impossible to find out what the hell the truth is.

I was now both the secret and the keeper of it, but the idea that I could not know what is was I served, nor why, nor who, became nearly unendurable all at once

I was now both the secret and the keeper of it, but the idea that I could not know what it was I served, nor why, nor who, became nearly unendurable all at once

In general modern man has no solutions

Skeptics become overwhelmed by the different and conflicting accounts of what happiness, justice, truth are all about.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!

One of my favorite Tarantino films is 'Jackie Brown,' and 'Jackie Brown' does it so well, where I'm watching the back half of that movie, and I don't know which side Jackie Brown is playing. I think it's really ingenious for Tarantino to keep us in the dark on that.

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.