Language Quote by David Levithan

“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words…

— Leo Tolstoy

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the…

— Mark Twain

The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in…

— Frederic Bastiat

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must…

— Eudora Welty

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness…

— Steven Pinker

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The future gets no say in who we are.

— Buddy Wakefield

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

— Sinclair Lewis

“Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I…

— Don DeLillo

“And much like yours, its vagueness left to different interpretations, which led to war after war.”

— Wendy Higgins

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

— Alexander Theroux

“Fredo’s vagueness was born of ignorance, not discretion. Roth”

— Mark Winegardner