Quotes About Ambiguity

One had to dispel practicality. Then something else could be heard – if one was lucky, if the sun was shining, if the paths were well made, if one wore the right garments: and if one made no attempt at definition or popularisation.

It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

Too much positive is either scared or stupid or both. Reality is uncertain.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

A l'assurance des acteurs oppose le charme des modèles qui ne savent pas ce qu'ils sont.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Perhaps it may turn out a sang,Perhaps turn out a sermon.

Never and forever are usually neither

Analysis and design are not binary deliverables. They do not have unambiguous completion criteria. There's no real way to know that you are done with them.

Overall, one gets the impression of a commander who was unsure of himself and consequently inconsistent. In other words, just about the worst kind of commander imaginable, although one blessed with uncanny luck.

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.

And even if by chance he were to utter the perfect truth, he would himself not know it, for all is but a woven web of guesses.

When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

El poder es, en esencia, amoral. Una de las habilidades más importantes que deberá adquirir es la capacidad de aprender a ver circunstancias, en lugar de, simplemente, el bien o el mal.

You are a blank screen. Float through life noncommittally and people will want to seize you and consume you. Of all the parts of your body that draw this fetishistic attention, the strongest is the face; so learn to tune your face like an instrument, making it radiate a fascinating vagueness for effect.

Follow David's example: say or do something that can be read in more than one way, that may be superficially polite but that could also indicate a slight coolness on your part or be seen as a subtle insult. A friend may wonder but will let it pass. The secret enemy, though, will react with anger.

Pero haz que la gente se pregunte por qué eres tímido o triste bajo tu desenvuelto ingenio intelectual, y conseguirás su atención. Dale una ambigüedad que le haga ver lo que quiere, atrapa su imaginación con algunos atisbos voyeuristas de tu alma oscura.

Esto no debe anunciarse en tus palabras, sino en tu actitud. No te preocupes si esta cualidad oculta es negativa, como peligro, crueldad o amoralidad; la gente se sentirá atraída por el enigma de todas maneras, y es raro que la bondad pura sea seductora.