Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

Vague goals produce vague results — Jack Canfield
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague. — Thomas Haden Church
I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure… — Neal A. Maxwell
Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to… — Price Pritchett
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that… — Robertson Davies
But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and… — Vincent Van Gogh
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John von Neumann
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be… — Lewis Fry Richardson
The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were… — Ekaterina Sedia
I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I… — Diet Eman
The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon… — George W. Bush
Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering… — Alice Bailey
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the… — Igor Stravinsky
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if… — Robert Greene
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon. — Leonard Woolf
Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto… — Mary Roach
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter… — Adelaide Anne Procter
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually… — Juliana Hatfield
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a… — A. E. Housman
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism… — William Ernest Henley
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. — Maya Angelou
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few… — Larry McMurtry
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… — Maurice Maeterlinck

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