Ambiguities Quotes

25 Ambiguities quotes by 23 unique authors

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
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
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? — Banana Yoshimoto
...I am much better now at ambiguities. — Saul Bellow
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
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
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow
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
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
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. — Herman Melville
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities,… — Jacqueline Carey
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow… — Joan Didion

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