Quotes About Ambiguity

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain

The only certainty is that nothing is certain

I don't know what I want sometimes, But I know that I want to know what I want. I know that once I know what I want I will be able to get it. Of course, I may not want what I get when I get it... But, at least I'll know I don't want that! Then, I can move on to something else I don't know if I want. That's progress!

I shall not today attempt further to define [pornography]… But I know it when I see it; and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Dia telah tinggalkan aku, entah untuk sementara entah tidak.

There's a dark side to everything.

A question about the philosophy of knowledge and science..... Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can go through is mysterious. So why do some of us try to explain some issues of imagination, and thus depriving those issues of their ambiguity!

Verrete perché io vi sto aspettando»; "Vi potrò vedere o no? That is the question: per conto mio, so bene come risolverla; ma siete voi a non volervi decidere. Ondeggiate, come ondeggerete tutta la vita, fra il vostro carattere di civetta e le abitudini di convento; tutto il male viene da lì".

Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

Mi decisión es una máscara y, tras ella, reina el desorden, el apeiron .

Fate's schedule is not always naked and clear.

I'm not sharpening my knife, nor am I fluffing welcoming pillows. I should mention that I'm not fluffing pillows to kill her with either.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse: the dark inside, or the darkness out.

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?

The day lies ahead empty of landmarks, like a prairie, like an untraversable plain.

ellipsis, he'd been told, could literally be translated as 'to hide behind silence'. It's fascinating stuff, he said.