Unclear Quotes:

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

- Gayle Forman

source: Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.119, Penguin

topic: Hands, Fingers, Unclear

Usually when Obama says, 'Let me be clear,' he's about to get into some very unclear sh*t.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Let Me, Clear, Unclear

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Life, Joy, Knows, Unclear

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

- Ansel Adams

source: Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Great Photography, Inspiring Nature

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

- George W. Bush

source: Attributed to George W. Bush in Associated Press interview in Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1988.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Political, Inarticulate, Effective Communication

When the next step is unclear, the best way to figure it out is to take action. Constant motion is the key to execution.

- Scott Belsky

topic: Keys, Way, Next, Unclear

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

- Marsilio Ficino

topic: Doubt, Want, Doubtful, Unclear

The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

- Scott Stapp

topic: Rocks, Rock And Roll, Two, Unsure, Unclear

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Death, Warrior, Thinking, Warrior Spirit, Unclear

I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.

- Janet Burroway

topic: Dull, Judgment, Insignificant, Unclear

Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Vision, Unclear

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

- Alan Cranston

topic: War, Enemy, Population, Unclear

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

- Viktor Schauberger

source: Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик

topic: Wisdom, Believe, Heart, Falseness, Unclear

The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

- George Soros

source: George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Believe, Views, Opposites, Future Development, Unclear

Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

- Thomas Homer-Dixon

topic: Technology, Opportunity, Reality, Mobilization, Political Engagement

I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder

- Brian Tracy

topic: Ideas, People, Giving, Unclear

There is another part of his policy that we`re unclear about, which is how - whether he`s going to stick to this proposal to ban Muslim immigrants. It is amazing that we`re less than 70 days away from the election and we`re all waiting with kind of baited breath to find out what is [Donald] Trump`s immigration policy, right?

- Michelle Goldberg

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Waiting, Sticks, Immigration, Unclear, Immigration Policy

Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear.

- Catherine Wilson

topic: Decision, Doubt, Shrimp, Human Cloning, Unclear

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

- George Tenet

source: Remarks at Georgetown University, 5 February 2004.

topic: Enemy, United States, Definitions, Unclear

Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

- Nick Stahl

topic: Character, Tv Shows, Play, Unclear

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

- Samuel P. Huntington

source: Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

topic: Country, Middle East, Conflict, Unclear

There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.

- Judy Woodruff

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Men, Bridges, Class, Unclear

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

- Shmuley Boteach

topic: Blessing, Appreciate, Tragedy, Human Development, Unclear

I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.

- Judith Butler

source: Source: transadvocate.com

topic: Jobs, Sex, Vocabulary, Unchangeable, Innate

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

- Francis Crick

topic: Minorities, May, Acid, Triplet, Amino Acids

It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

- Rick Scott

source: "Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.

topic: Government, Self, Law, Law Abiding Citizen, Disarming

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

- George Will

topic: Reading, Biden, Disease, Back Roads, Mares

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.

- Richard Mitchell

topic: Running, Heart, Meditation, Unclear

When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Simple, Priorities, Decision, Unclear

It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.

- Sophie Jordan

topic: Real, Moving, Hands, Flesh And Blood, Unclear

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Reading, Hands, People, Unclear

From a magical point of view, the term 'nonviolence' doesn't work well. Every beginning Witch learns that you can't cast a spell for what you don't want - that the deep aspects of our minds are unclear on the concept of 'no.' If you tell your dog, 'Rover, I can't take you for a walk,' Rover hears 'Walk!' and runs for the door. If we say 'nonviolence,' we are still thinking in terms of violence.

- Starhawk

topic: Running, Dog, Thinking, Unclear

The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.

- Carlo Rovelli

source: "Quantum gravity". Book by Carlo Rovelli, 2004.

topic: Confusion, Understanding, Foundation, Incoherence, Unclear

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

- William Baziotes

source: William Baziotes (1978). “William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition”

topic: Matter, Painting, Backgrounds, Subject Matter, Unclear

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

- Benny Hinn

source: "Exclusive interview with Benny Hinn". Interview with Joseph Knoll, www.freerepublic.com. September 06, 2007.

topic: God, May, Way, Unclear

It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

source: Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.127, Indiana University Press

topic: Men, Ideas, Brain, Condemning, Arteries

Speaking as Coulson, it's unclear. I feel like that are other formidable S.H.I.E.L.D. elements and they don't have Coulson's connection to some of these people. I think what I like about what seems to be going on is there are differing opinions about who's where on the hierarchy and I think that's some of what goes on in the movie.

- Clark Gregg

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, People, Connections, Unclear

"There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if it was really more about my inability/refusal to write in the convoluted style that they wanted me to. I remember the initial shock upon reading my peers' papers. I seriously could not understand them, and I couldn't understand why the writing had to be so unclear in order to be considered smart.

- Mary J. Miller

topic: Smart, Reading, Writing, Convoluted, Unclear

If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.

- Deborah Day

topic: Attitude, Evaluation, Difficult Times, Unclear

Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter II, 1835.

topic: Mother, Children, Struggle, Wrapping, Power Of Thought

I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Thinking, Discipline, Trying, Inarticulate, Concise

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

- Seth Godin

source: "Is it time for a competitor to the Olympics?". sethgodin.typepad.com. February 19, 2014.

topic: Responsibility, Rocks, Organization, Unclear

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

- John Ralston Saul

source: John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

topic: Government, Years, Leader, Unclear

The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.

- Karel De Gucht

source: "Dominc Lawson: Pessimism is Brown's enemy on Europe". www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 2007.

topic: Constitution, Aim, Clear, Unclear

When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

- Sengcan

topic: Practice, Judging, Benefits, Unclear

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

- Robert B. Laughlin

topic: Philosophy, Needs, Prejudice, Philosophy Of Science, Unclear

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Path, Manners, Motive, Unkindness, Unclear

Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Caring, Self, Doe, Dixie, Disposable

Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level." "Oh, I'm sorry--this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little unclear about the rules. Are we seeing other people in this fake relationship?

- Julie James

source: Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.50, Penguin

topic: Sorry, Taken, People, Undercover, Unclear

I'm sure that inside your heart... you're trying with all your might to find it on your own... the reason you were born. Because... because really... there might not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think that everyone... everyone might have to find one on their own. [in her head] A reason for being born... A reason that it's okay to be alive... A reason to exist. [aloud] I think everyone might have to find it themselves... and decide it for themselves. It could be your dreams... your job... or a person... The reason you're looking for... might be vague, unclear... and uncertain. [in her head] And you might lose it. [aloud] But as long as you're alive... you have to keep searching for that reason.

- Natsuki Takaya

source: "Fruits Basket". Manga series by Natsuki Takaya, July 1998 – November 2006.

topic: Heart, Thinking, Long, Fruits Basket, Unclear