That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that… — Shirley Franklin Copy Share Image
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
One drop of black blood and you're black. That was the rule. That's what kept the wall between whites and blacks was… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“As I described earlier, System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it… — Kelly G. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals?… — Matt Robinson Copy Share Image
Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said,… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out,… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.… — Martin Horner Copy Share Image
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“But was it worth anything? That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
“It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains… — Roopleen Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
