Ambiguity Quote by John Updike Download Open image “It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguity Clash Extremes
“Not observing, not conceptualizing, and not establishing the two extremes, not mentally engaging, and not being occupied with them is what is taught in… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
When the far left and the far right agree on something, you don't want to be in the middle. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing. — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about. — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other. — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Every social situation is fraught with ambiguity, knee-deep in complication, hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive-aggression and paranoid confusion.” — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
This is a kind of mutual reconciliation society... Actual extremes cannot be mediated with each other precisely because they are actual extremes. But neither… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
