History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem. — James Marcus Bach Copy Share Image
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
There's something gorgeously ambiguous about being trans. That's something I love about being trans, is that I use it to my advantage… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
“NOTHING APPLIES, I print with the magnetized IBM pencil. What does apply, they ask later, as if the word "nothing" were ambiguous,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads… — Gilles Néret Copy Share Image
“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly… — Hideaki Anno Copy Share Image
“An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Since I don't feel like I belong solely to any one of them I find that it makes me even more interested… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“What is our UN-VICE in the context of Disruption 3.0? To sum up, UN-VICE is an updated way of capturing the state… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like… — Greg Mottola 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
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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