Quotes About Ambiguity

Esto es una ratonera. Cómoda, soleada, con vistas al mar, eso sí, pero una ratonera, quizás la mejor, y precisamente por eso, una de las peores.

Now Kant is by no means easy to understand, which is no doubt part of his charm. If you want to be a really great philosopher, make sure not to say too clearly what you have in mind (well, maybe that's not quite enough, but it's a good start);

If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that nothing is ever sure.

Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.

If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.

Les mois passèrent. Chaque jour, le temps perdait de sa consistance. J'étais incapable de déterminer s'il s'écoulait vite ou lentement.

Tu as rendu quelqu'un heureux en étant claire. Il faut oser dire non.Il n y a rien de gentil à laisser de faux espoirs... L'ambiguïté est la source de douleur...

L'amour concentre la certitude et le doute : on est sûr d'être aimé autant qu'on en doute, non pas tour à tour, mais en une simultanéité déconcertante. Chercher à se débarrasser de ce versant dubitatif en posant mille questions à l'aimée, c'est nier la nature radicalement ambigüe de l'amour.

L'amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatura dubitativa facendo mille domande alla propria amata, significa negare la natura radicalmente ambigua dell'amore.

Aussi je me permets de vous demander quelles sont les pensées et les humeurs d'un grand écrivain qui se sait sur le point de mourir. Silence. Soupir. - Je ne sais pas, monsieur. - Vous ne savez pas? - Si je savais à quoi je pensais, je suppose que je ne serais pas devenu écrivain. - Vous voulez dire que vous écrivez pour savoir enfin à quoi vous pensez? - C'est possible. Je ne sais plus très bien, je n'ai plus écrit depuis si longtemps.

Il n'y a rien de gentil à laisser de faux espoirs. L'ambiguïté est la source de la douleur.

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

I had this website that, at one point, I listed myself as 'actor, writer, comedian, and fart enthusiast' just because I thought that would be a really clear joke.

Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.

I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

I think people have always had ambiguous relationships toward the police because of the position in society they occupy. But that anxiety and that animosity isn't as strong in other places as it is in the U.S., partially because the police are armed here.

Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.