Quotes About Vagueness

I've always been drawn to ambiguity.

We said a lot of things; we said nothing.

Something about the ragged beggar seemed faintly familiar, too.

For a couple of pages now you have been reading on, and this would be the time to tell you clearly whether this station where I have got off is a station of the past or a station of today; instead the sentences continue to move in vagueness, grayness, a kind of noman's land of experience reduced to the lowest common denominator. Watch out: it is surely a method of involving you gradually, capturing you in the story before you realize it— a trap.

indistinctness is my forte...

My crystal ball is fuzzy

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I started to read mathematics and science back in the mid-70s I found an unexpected lyricism in the necessarily precise language that scientists tend to use My instinct, my superstition is that the closer I see a thing and the more accurately I describe it, the better my chances of arriving at a certain sensuality of expression.

We're clear. We're vague. We hate. We love. We feel passionately about our shoes yet shrug off disasters on TV. We are finely tuned sensors of right and wrong, and horrible examples for our kids. We are walking contradictions. We are encyclopedias of the heart.

All her grace was in her vagueness. Her voice was soft, her manner languid, her features blurred and dreamy.

We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, if ever, it is the duty of all advocates of clear, well-defined, sharply-cut theology, to supply proof that their views are thoroughly borne out by Scripture.

Carezco de un repertorio de conocimientos sólidos sobre algo concreto, no domino un arte o una técnica, y aunque a veces puede parecer que sé mucho o que al menos hablo como experto, en el fondo todo son vaguedades, palabrería, filfa y apariencia, con algunos relumbrones que crean la ilusión de un vasto saber apenas entrevisto.

You can see why we children asked so many questions. It is a vague story, the kind parents prefer to tell.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

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

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

And yet Nothing here is certain;

Fredo's vagueness was born of ignorance, not discretion. Roth

She sometimes said, "I don't know," even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

I don't know,' Greer said to Zee, aware of a kind of familiar vagueness sweeping around her. She sometimes said, 'I don't know,' even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

No, yo no soy un vago! Mi imaginación no descansa. Los vagos son ellos, los que dicen que trabajan y no hacen sino aturdirse y ahogar el pensamiento.

As I said, as indeed Orwell said, there is unproductive vagueness, but there is also dried out precision. We need both ways of thinking. Vagueness and precision, wide focus and narrow.

the manner of speech of everybody in the world—held strange, elusive complexities, intricately presented with overtones of vagueness: I have always been baffled by these precautions so strict as to be useless, and by the intensely irritating little maneuvers surrounding them.

Và chúng tôi ch?ng h? x?ng ???c nh? v?y, tr? m?i cái s? x?ng ?áng mà tu?i tr? ban phát cho b?t kì ai trong m?t quãng th?i gian r?t ng?n, nh? m?t l?i th? m? h? ch?ng gi? ???c bao gi?