I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity. — Jason Beghe Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around. — Jim Blinn Copy Share Image
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
“I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess.… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression… — Richard Kalvar Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are living in times of great uncertainty. Likely no more so than in previous times but the sense of ambiguity may… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose.… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet… — William Thompson Copy Share Image
But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility… — Leo Hindery Copy Share Image
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys,… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
