Ambiguity Quotes · Page 5

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

— Richard Lugar

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity…

— John Crowley

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

— Roger Rees

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

— Pema Chodron

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.

— Scott D. Anthony

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral…

— Paul Ryan

“As the level of ambiguity increases, amygdalae activity continues to increase, and ventral striatum activity continues to decrease.”

— David DiSalvo

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox…

— Bob Brookmeyer

Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms…

— Irene Khan

I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am…

— John Gutmann

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an…

— Edward Young

I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant…

— Brian Eno

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

I think the Bhagavad Gita is about both the forces of light and the forces of darkness that exist within our own…

— Deepak Chopra

In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions…

— Warren G. Bennis

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

“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

But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of…

— Philipp Melanchthon

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

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on…

— Banana Yoshimoto

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

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

— Jason Beghe

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

— Mary Harron

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

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

— Terence McKenna

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

— Aldrich Ames

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

— Roger von Oech

“I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.”

— John Updike

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

— Adam Smith

This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.

— Jim Blinn

“We emerge from our Cloud of Ambiguity when we are ready or willing to let go of what has held us back.”

— Lisa Mininni

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

— Richard LaGravenese

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this…

— Mohsin Hamid

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

— Alexander Haig

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

— Evangeline Lilly