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Quotes About Ambiguity

Ne t'étonne de rien, la réalité a deux visages, les hommes aussi.
~ Amin Maalouf
Daha m? iyi olurdu, yoksa daha m? kötü? İnsan hala soluk al?p bu soruyu sorabiliyorsa, bu türlüsü pek de fena olmam?? demektir.
~ Amin Maalouf
Qu'une réalité soit imprécise, insaisissable et frustrante ne veut pas dire qu'elle n'existe pas
~ Amin Maalouf
Et qui, un jour, a cessé d'être ce qu'il avait été, et cessé de promettre ce qu'il semblait avoir promis.
~ Amin Maalouf
Yes Sierra Leone to me was both utterly familiar and ineffably alien: I knew it but I could not claim to understand it.
~ Aminatta Forna
Mislove manages the neat trick of having two meanings that are almost opposite each other. While this is not an uncommon phenomenon (for example, left can refer to both having departed and remaining), words in this category are usually significantly more boring than mislove. Monodynamic
~ Ammon Shea
In just the first letter of the OED you will find words as magnificent as agathokakological (composed of good and evil), as delicately shaded as addubitation (the suggestion of doubt), and as odd as antithalian (opposed to fun or festivity). I
~ Ammon Shea
He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him
~ Amos Oz
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
~ Amy Hempel
So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face. "He claims to be ac/dc," he said, watching her face light up completely.
~ Amy Lane
It was a beautiful dream, being with this one person who loved him. He could warm himself by that dream and wake up in its bed every day and every night—but he wasn't sure if he could ever really inhabit that dream.
~ Amy Lane
WALKED in three days later, and he was tied to the bed while a girl was tickling him with a feather. And sucking his cock. "But…," I sputtered, after closing the door behind me.
~ Amy Lane
Witch-heart, are you gold or black?
~ Amy Lowell
Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.
~ Amy McAuley
How long have you been here?" "I don't know. You just stole my watch," he said with a shrug.
~ Amy Neftzger
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
~ Amy Tan
All we know about economics is that we do not know something
~ AMYNE E. QASEM
the futurists predict the future of nations, but is difficult for them to predict their future
~ AMYNE E. QASEM
There are many versions of a story. Many sides and lenses that can distort, change, illuminate what is seen and unseen. What is heard and unheard. What is felt and unfelt. In the end, truth is but a facet of a diamond, a spark of ray from the sun, a forget-me-not flower seen from the eyes of a bee. What lives and breathes as reality is a perception, so who is to say what is possible and impossible?
~ An Na
But what had really happened, unfortunately, as ideal as it started out to be, was not that they had succeeded in becoming one, but that they had become neither.
~ Ana Castillo
Fue a partir de entonces, cuando yo fui MALA. Para todos, no. Para Tata Maria, Isabel, Jerónimo y Fabián, sólo un poco rara.
~ Ana María Matute
Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?
~ Ana Monnar
To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.
~ Anacreon
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
~ Anatole France