Quotes About Ambiguity

It's hard to redefine something that never had a clear definition in the first place.

Hey, so what's the deal with you and Kavinsky?" I just shrug and give him an enigmatic smile. "It's crazy, right? Because he's so…" I search for the exact right word, but I can't think of it. "I mean, he could play the part of a handsome guy in a movie." Hastily I add, "So could you, though. You'd play the guy the girl should pick." Lucas laughs, but I can tell he likes it.

It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.

We were never a thing, not really, but we almost were, and to me, that's something.

maybe it's good to exist in a place of unsureness for a while.

Also, it's hard to redefine something that never had a clear definition in the first place.

I think maybe I'm just tired of all this. This in-betweenness of being somebody's girlfriend but not really.

My parents were consistently inconsistent.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

It has oblique leaves

No set line between lost and not lost.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The prime minister is a Labour Tory. There's a mosque at the end of your street and a French restaurant next door. We are neither in nor out of Europe. We are famous for our beer but we drink in wine bars. We are not a colonial power but we still have a commonwealth. We are jealous of the rich but we buy into the Hello! celebrity culture. We live in a United Kingdom that's no longer united. We are muddled.

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

There's two heads to every coin.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

While the blustery Luther, with his categorical denials of any ambiguity in the Bible, stands as the champion of the humble reader, the reasoning Luther stands within the stream of creeds and scholarship that defines more soberly and narrowly the scope and nature of the Bible's clarity.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Did you ever meet someone who either had no sense of humor or was never serious, you couldn't tell which?

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

When I think about what my future holds, it is a bit like looking into the sun. I flinch away, or I don't and my eyes get burned down a bit, like candles, and then I can't see for a while.