Quotes About Vague

The traveler must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalization. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping vague conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are]... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.

As for Miss Merriville, Mr Trevor felt that she was very well able to take care of herself. He had been dazzled by her beautiful companion, but he retained a vague impression of a self-possessed female, with a slightly aquiline nose, and an air of friendly assurance. He did not think that she would be easily taken-in.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.

It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time—it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. I was born without teeth—and there Richard III had the advantage of me; but I was born without a humpback, likewise, and there I had the advantage of him. My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. But

People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex

Simplicity has always been looked upon as a token, not only of truth, but also of genius. Style receives its beauty from the thought expressed, while with those writers who only pretend to think it is their thoughts that are said to be fine because of their style. Style is merely the silhouette of thought; and to write in a vague or bad style means a stupid or confused mind.

Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.

ansiedad es una vivencia de temor ante algo difuso, vago, inconcreto, indefinido, que, a diferencia del miedo,

Many of us, her mind repeated, walking with vague symptoms, breathing fear. So many of us who, through love, have a stake in life.

And Sheila was indeed noncommittal. She

First, I suggested, instead of continuing to hold out the vague promise about deflationary concerns subsiding,

But we had agreed in advance to be vague because we were intensely concerned that acknowledging our inability to save Lehman would hurt market confidence and increase pressure on other vulnerable firms.

we offered guidance, albeit vague, on our own expectations for monetary policy. We

However, markets saw the European effort as vague and insufficiently ambitious.

Julgava ser possível conceber um qualquer Deus sem relação connosco, bastante vago, amorfo e cósmico, ao qual eu fizera uma promessa e que me retribuíra o prometido - algo que do vago penetrava na vida humana concreta, como um denso vapor deslocando-se por entre as cadeiras e as paredes.

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

a vague soil spread and ready from which friendships would spring.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

shoeburyness n. The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from someone else's bottom.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.