Ambiguous Quote by David Brin Download Open image “I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.” — David Brin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguous I regret Regret
Some days I regret wording things the way I did in the heat of the moment. — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
The only regret I had with you is for making me shed tears even when I don't wish to. — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
“Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin the world. Women, you must judge them . . . Never again can things be allowed to reach this pass, they said to one another as they thought of the sacrifice the Scouts had made. Never… — David Brin Copy Share
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs. — David Brin Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that this did… — David Brin Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature",… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being contradictory, are yet very different: on the one hand it means what is familiar and agreeable, and on the other, what is concealed and kept out of sight. Unheimlich is customarily used, we are told, as the contrary… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
