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Quotes About Vague

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.
~ Cate Blanchett
I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
~ Michael K. Powell
You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
My opinion is it's a scandal." "What are you referring to specifically?" "Everything." "Can you be more specific?" "What's more specific than everything?
~ John Godey
Mallory's face went briefly vague, as those of Exalts could do when they consulted their internal worlds.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one's fingers.
~ Arthur Koestler
It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.
~ Geoff Dyer
It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having met someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.
~ Geoff Dyer
Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection. I feel that especially about representations of women. As if a woman were a mere colored superficies! You must wait for movement and tone. There is a difference in their very breathing: they change from moment to moment.
~ George Eliot
Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within
~ George Eliot
I am growing to hate the vague declarations of psychiatric treatment, the airy cross-your-fingers pronouncements. The treatment of mental health is an inexact science. But, as I am slowly coming to understand, depression is an inexact illness.
~ Sally Brampton
It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.
~ Cynthia Nixon
Complex problems are often open-ended and poorly defined
~ Marjan van den Belt
Then you cannot have thought much either of your position or of mine." "He is a gentleman, papa." "So is my private secretary. There is not a clerk in one of our public offices who does not consider himself to be a gentleman. The curate of the parish is a gentleman, and the medical man who comes here from Bradstock. The word is too vague to carry with it any meaning that ought to be serviceable to you in thinking of such a matter.
~ Anthony Trollope
Mmm," he said vaguely, trying to sound polite but disinterested.
~ Armistead Maupin
There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent.
~ Shirley Jackson
No one knew how old she was, but she vaguely remembered waving to President Coolidge. She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.
~ Ellen Klages
We are ice and snow, we are that trapped state. We are water falling, itinerant and vague, ever seeking the lowest level, trying to collect and connect. We are vapor, raised against our own devices, made nebulous, blown on whatever wind arises. To start again, glacial or not.
~ banks iain m ii
That which is the power and worth of life they must be, or die; and the vague consciousness of this makes them afraid. They love their poor existence as it is; God loves it as it must be—and they fear him.
~ George MacDonald
That is invariably the case in the East; a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
~ George Orwell
El deseo debe preceder a la realización. Vuestros deseos tienen que ser fuertes y bien definidos. Los deseos vagos no son más que débiles deseos.
~ George S. Clason