Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person.… — Kether Donohue Copy Share Image
Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at… — Camille Paglia 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
I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's… — Anna Sui 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
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“I call that ambiguity,” I said. “Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we… — Rosalie Maggio 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
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
The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened,… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
“In the context of Lawrence's rejection of the Freudian notion of incest and the close identification between author and character, Sons and… — John E. Stoll Copy Share Image
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But… — Hamid-Reza Assefi Copy Share Image
“Every social situation is fraught with ambiguity, knee-deep in complication, hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive-aggression and paranoid confusion.” — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future… — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The more we place boundaries on the uncertainty—by acknowledging what we know for certain—the more manageable the remaining ambiguity feels to our… — Caroline Webb Copy Share Image
My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
