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Quotes About Inconclusive

Me dijo que su libro se llamaba el Libro de Arena, porque ni el libro ni la arena tienen ni principio ni fin
~ Jorge Luís Borges
it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit, that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences.
~ Joseph Conrad
The War went on far too long... It was too vast for its meaning, like a giant with the brain of a midge. Its epic proportions were grotesquely out of scale, seeing what it was fought to settle. It was far too indecisive. It settled nothing, as it meant nothing. Indeed, it was impossible to escape the feeling that it was not meant to settle anything - that could have any meaning, or be of any advantage, to the general run of men.
~ Wyndham Lewis
In Paris, the doctors had struggled to make sense of my symptoms - anemia, fatigue and persistent infections. They ran test after test - I was even hospitalized for a week - but the results were inconclusive.
~ Suleika Jaouad
It left a feeling of something not done.
~ Robert Jordan
that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.
~ Roderick Beaton
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
~ Samuel R. Delaney
Since coming to Kidlington, she'd managed to get on to Hillary's boat, but the search had been disappointing and inconclusive. If her immediate boss knew where her late and unlamented husband had kept his money, it didn't show. And she certainly hadn't spent any of it —it was one of the first things Gemma had checked. Her car was ancient, and her home was still a bloody narrowboat of all things.
~ Faith Martin
An unfinished feeling.
~ Sylvia Plath
To date, laboratory attempts to recreate these processes are intriguing but inconclusive. We have yet to create life from scratch.
~ Brian Greene
Ties in the NFL absolutely suck. Trust me, I was involved with a tie against the San Francisco 49ers when I was with the Rams in 2012 and it felt pointless.
~ Chris Long
But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.
~ C.A. Fletcher
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
~ Dante Alighieri
Resolved untested was moot.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
It probably doesn't mean anything.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
Any given study seems to prove a lot, but put together, they are so at odds with each other that the net effect is inconclusive.
~ Ian Hacking
Reading the Koran on its own terms, trying to interpret it without resorting to commentaries, is a difficult and questionable exercise because of the nature of the text-its allusive and referential style and its grammatical and logical discontinuities, as well as our lack of sure information about its origins and the circumstances of its composition. Often such a reading seems arbitrary and necessarily inconclusive. G. R. Hawting
~ Ibn Warraq
Passing on. It's not even grammatical. It just hangs there, vague and inconclusive. It's like saying he went up to. Passed on to where, exactly?
~ Niall Williams