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Quotes About Indefinite

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
~ Elizabeth Smart
There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist.
~ Arthur Machen
Nothing is absolutely 100 percent guaranteed.
~ Erik Spoelstra
For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit...
~ George Eliot
I'm so glad you write happy endings,' said Mabel. 'After all, life isn't really so unpleasant as some writers make out, is it? she added hopefully. 'No, perhaps not. It's comic and sad and indefinite—dull, sometimes, but seldom really tragic or deliriously happy, except when one's very young.
~ Barbara Pym
This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.
~ Tom Ridge
Quantum physics tells us that no matter how thorough our observation of the present, the (unobserved) past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. The universe, according to quantum physics, has no single past, or history. The fact that the past takes no definite form means that observations you make on a system in the present affect its past.
~ Stephen Hawking
Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.
~ Stephen King
ansiedad es una vivencia de temor ante algo difuso, vago, inconcreto, indefinido, que, a diferencia del miedo,
~ Enrique Rojas
Retreating to indefinite lockdown culture would mean surrendering what makes life worth living, a far more tragic cost than anything inflicted by a virus.
~ Claire Fox
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
~ Bill Joy
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
~ Herbert Spencer
A corporation trademark represents a total program for a company. A good symbol will implement its products. Normally such a symbol will be around for an indefinite future 10, 20, 30 years or more.
~ Saul Bass
But Yates was desperate enough to put aside his anxiety and give teaching a try. He could think of no more demoralizing prospect, after all, than an indefinite future of PR work—insipid, time-consuming, exhausting, and damaging to one's talent, not to mention sanity.
~ Blake Bailey
An unfinished feeling.
~ Sylvia Plath
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
~ Herman Melville
What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.
~ Glenn Greenwald
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
~ Karl Popper
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! Is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing - straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
~ Herman Melville
an indefinite courtship soon injures a woman's position and credit, sooner than you think.' 'Baptista
~ Thomas Hardy
as if a plunge toward dawn indefinite black hours long would indeed be necessary
~ Thomas Pynchon
But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.
~ C.A. Fletcher
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
~ Eric Butterworth
They don't know what you can do with it, and will live in a state of uncertainty.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb