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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“We might not be able to know what reality is about, but we can’t but be aware of the explicitness of facts.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of… — Philipp Melanchthon 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
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
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
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
The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am… — John Gutmann 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
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
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
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
“It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of… — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead… — Joe Cornish Copy Share Image
'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with… — Brendan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra 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
“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
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
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
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's… — Edward Norton 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
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
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
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