Vagueness Quotes

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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the… — Amelia Barr
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother… — Mark Twain
I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed… — Gary Louris
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a… — Frederic Bastiat
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the… — Augustus William Hare
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. — Bernard Levin
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and… — George Orwell
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong,… — J L Austin
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both. — Alexander Theroux
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… — Christian Wiman
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I… — Sebastian Horsley
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is… — William Zinsser
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that… — Julia Cameron
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. — John Updike
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History… — Richard Owen
You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires,… — Frederick Lenz
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot… — John Bates Clark
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be… — Eudora Welty
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. — Sebastian Faulks

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