Ambiguity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.
-- Anibal Cavaco Silva -
In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.
-- David Trimble -
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
-- Frank Herbert -
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:
-- James Hollis -
I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.
-- Jason Beghe -
Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
-- John Bolton -
The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
-- Jonah Hill -
Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.
-- Joseph Pearce -
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr. -
The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
-- Milan Kundera -
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
-- Mohsin Hamid -
To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.
-- Nisio Isin -
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
-- Scott Turow -
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
-- Skeet Ulrich -
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
-- Thomas Reid -
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
-- Vernon A. Walters -
This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.
-- Albert Serra -
We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women
-- Lillian B. Rubin -
I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right.
-- Jerry Jones