Ambiguities Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little…
— Violet Trefusis
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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 the evidence that…
— Manu Joseph
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
— Banana Yoshimoto
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...I am much better now at ambiguities.
— Saul Bellow
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of…
— J. G. Ballard
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
— Scott Turow
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The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.
— Ali Larijani
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in…
— Marilyn Hacker
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
— Herman Melville
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the…
— Bertrand Russell
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
— Lance Armstrong
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One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed…
— Angela Carter
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That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things…
— Isabel Allende
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Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my…
— Anais Nin
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We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;…
— Lynne Truss
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To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you…
— Hilary Mantel
Who Wrote These Ambiguities Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Ambiguities Quotes as follows: