Ambiguous Quotes

118 quotes by 112 authors

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open… — Elliot Perlman
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… — Clive Barker
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-… — Philip Pullman
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could… — Masashi Kishimoto
and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in… — Franz Kafka
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I… — Brennan Manning
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they… — Daniel Quinn
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown… — Tom Robbins
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.… — Mary Zimmerman
You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality! — John Green
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and… — David Nicholls
Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call â€œrealityâ€. However, knowledge and experience… — Masashi Kishimoto
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen
I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free… — Kelsey Chow
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear… — Friedrich St. Florian
I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out… — Jason Silva
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? — Jami Attenberg

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