Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me. — Anibal Cavaco Silva Copy Share Image
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity. — Jason Beghe Copy Share Image
Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our… — Carrie Coon 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
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
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the… — William Stringfellow 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
“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
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
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
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
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert to her next disaster. Despite being resigned to a life… — G.G. Renee Hill Copy Share Image
“ L'Avventura ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
“Ambiguity is like a riddle. I like riddles. Why try to avoid riddles? It is a jigsaw puzzle you have to put… — Lucy Carter Copy Share Image
“The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
“The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
“And here it would seem from some ambiguity in her terms that she was censuring both sexes equally, as if she belonged… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
