Quotes About Vagueness

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

couldn't say what precisely

programas tan estrictos, ocio incluido, y su vida laboral se verá sometida a tales obligaciones horarias, que el oasis de los estudios se dedica cuidadosamente a la vaguedad, a lo incierto, incluso a una suntuosa nada.

That creates instability, too." "Or maybe

If you can't be kind at least be vague.

Because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal, we had that thing, you know," Trump said, according to Comey's notes. (Comey thought this was an example of Trump's penchant for Mafia talk. When making improper demands, the president, like the gangsters, would switch to a studied vagueness—like "that thing, you know.")

Oh, said Mown, a handy non-committal syllable to have around when you haven't the first clue as to what you are feeling.

And for many of the other questions, the answers I received were cloaked in the sort of highly polished public relations vagueness that makes responses so measured and couched in nuance that they are essentially meaningless.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

Nel sogno c'è sempre qualcosa di assurdo e confuso, non ci si libera mai della vaga sensazione ch'è tutto falso, che un bel momento ci si dovrà svegliare.

There was too little solid ground under one's feet.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

What, they had asked Meyer, did he do for a living? "Business," he replied. "What kind of business?" came the question. "My business," came his answer, and Lansky absolutely declined to elaborate further.

Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.

Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague 'Cause I need some of that vagueness now It's all come back too clearly Yes, I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid

I hadn't the faintest idea what 'this matter' was, but I was more annoyed than interested.

She always answered the questions in a vague fashion, partly because she didn't want to discuss the matter, and partly because she didn't know exactly how she did feel. Only that she had known, always, that life would be like this, because this was how it was for every British India family, and the children absorbed and accepted the fact that, from an early age, long separations and partings would, eventually, be inevitable.

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

From the beginning, he'd understood what every three-year-old knows: that the vague threat is way scarier than knowing how much trouble, exactly, you're facing.

How vague these husbands are.

In practice, language is always more or less vague, so that what we assert is never quite precise.

The specifics of what, exactly, these terms meant were never explained; as with any fantasy, vagueness was part of the appeal.

Trump was also smart enough to be vague about the details of the wall so that each of us could imagine the wall we wanted to imagine. He could have easily provided his own artists' renderings of the wall, but that would have been a mistake. It would have given critics lots of targets to attack. But there is one kind of wall that is hard to criticize: the one that is entirely different in each person's head.