Quotes About Vagueness

They tend to ask lots of questions that they seem to already know the answers to. They make it a point to kick the tires of whatever it is you're selling, almost to the point of over-kicking them. They let out a large number of ooos and aahs and yups, to reinforce the sense that they're genuinely interested. When asked about their finances, they either become boisterously overconfident or unnecessarily vague.

vague, very vague.

She had this vague look in her eyes, half-disappointed, half what's-the-difference. Like someone who realized he bought skim milk by mistake and doesn't have the energy to take it back.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

William James used to preach the "will to believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will to doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Sólo que Judas, Platero, es el diputado, o la maestra, o el forense, o el recaudador, o el alcalde, o la comadrona; y cada hombre descarga su escopeta cobarde, hecho niño esta mañana de Sábado Santo, contra el que tiene su odio, en una superposición de vagos y absurdos simulacros primaverales.

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

nebulous misgivings

She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

I guess. I don't remember his name but it

The prophecies are not literal, Mistress," OreSeur said. "They're metaphors - expressions of hope. Or, at least, that is how I have always seen them. Perhaps your Terris prophecies are the same? Expressions of a belief that if the people were in danger, their gods would send a Hero to protect them? In this case, the vagueness would be intentional - and rational. The prophecies were never meant to mean something specific, but more to speak of a general feeling. A general hope.

To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it were, and was not dazzled by the apparition; whereas her father's great faculties seemed, as they stretched away, to lose themselves in a sort of luminous vagueness, which indicated, not that they stopped, but that Catherine's own mind ceased to follow them.

You know when people ask sometimes what are you doing, and you say just something to them.

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

When do these three days expire?" "That's what really pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." Barrons looked at me, then a faint smile curved his lips, and for a moment I thought he might laugh. "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it." "My sentiments exactly.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

I could tell that Peter, in the irritating way of very young men, had been mysterious about the whole episode.