Ambiguity Quotes

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

— Vernon A. Walters

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

— Banana Yoshimoto

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

— Terence McKenna

“Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.”

— Toba Beta

“Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.”

— Brodi Ashton

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

— Geraldine Laybourne

“I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!”

— Marko Stout

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

— Skeet Ulrich

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

— Robert James Waller

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

— Antonin Scalia

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

— Roy Basler

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

— Mary L. Trump

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

— Hugh Prather

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which…

— Ron Carlson

Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

— William Safire

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

— Richard Mottram

The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet…

— William Thompson

But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility…

— Leo Hindery

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

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

Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst…

— Louis Althusser

The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess.…

— Marti Noxon

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

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

Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish…

— Adela Popescu

In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within…

— Anonymous

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive,…

— Lynne Truss

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want…

— Bill Vaughan

Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them…

— Barry Levinson

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are…

— Frank Herbert

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will…

— Henri Poincare

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

“The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue…

— Jonathan Wells

“Ambiguity is like a riddle. I like riddles. Why try to avoid riddles? It is a jigsaw puzzle you have to put…

— Lucy Carter

“The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful…

— Gilda Radner

There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they…

— Marshall Curry

“ L'Avventura ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be…

— Marisha Pessl

“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

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for…

— Brennan Manning

“And here it would seem from some ambiguity in her terms that she was censuring both sexes equally, as if she belonged…

— Anonymous