Ambiguous Quotes - Page 2

• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Party, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Land, Circles

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Work, Way, Sentiments

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

  Larry Wall

  Language, Computer, Humans

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

  Jason Kenney

  Government, Answers, Language

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

  Umberto Eco

  Gains, Significance, Elusive

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• The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

  Edward Gibbon

  Brother, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Confused, Compassion

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• I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that.

  Amy Hill

  Dark, Lines, Good Person

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

  Tim Ferriss

  Wine, Bottles Of Wine, Bottles

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Dream, Atheist, Men

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• Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hurt, Love Is, Alive

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• Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

  Martin Heidegger

  Decay, World, Path

  Martin Heidegger (1987). “Nietzsche”

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• The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

  Benjamin Graham

  Past, Gold, Commodity

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham.Part III, Chapter X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p. 127, 1937.

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• We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Issues, Agency, Rumor

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• The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Communication, Emotional, Two

  Sade (marquis de), Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir”

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• The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Russia, Want, Study

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• There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think she meant that America was too good a place for the horror of abortion. But instead, it sounded like she had weighed both - the American spirit and getting an abortion and decided that American spirit better. I think it is a bad idea to have grammatically ambiguous protest signs.

  Eugene Mirman

  Thinking, Ideas, America

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• Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

  Bentley Little

  Life, Real, World

  Bentley Little (2003). “The Policy”, Signet

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• While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Art, World, Form

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• War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.

  Mark Kingwell

  Memories, War, People

  "The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.

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• 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 attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.

  Heinrich Böll

  Depressing, Humorous, Awful

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• I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail.

  Sophie Blackall

  Details, Looks, Too Much

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

  Erich Fromm

  Ends, Assonance, Clear

  Source: www.scribd.com

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