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Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence. — Edward Gibbon

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? — Doris Lessing

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere. — Joel Coen

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality! — John Green

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing. — Nadia Hashimi

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity. — Lois Lowry

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

Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words. — John Stuart Mill

For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers. — Pete Hamill

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. — Odilon Redon

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops — Teju Cole

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous. — Frank Herbert

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to. — Crawford Kilian

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem. — James Marcus Bach

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best. — Lindsey Buckingham

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. — Keith Richards

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are — Dan Pallotta

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." — Gillo Dorfles

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music. — Glenn Branca

My style is ambiguous and lucid. — Cee Lo Green

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think. — Joe Berlinger

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns. — Noam Chomsky

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking. — Angela Carter

It is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly. — Mark Dintenfass

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time. — CeeLo Green

When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.' — Malese Jow

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. — Francis Bacon

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. — Bill Watterson

If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in the object. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

That no one dies of migraine seems to someone deep in an attack as an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance. — Guy Le Querrec

Now I was nothing but a shade of grey - my moral compass ambiguous. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery. — Mason Cooley

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom. — Tom Bissell

The concept of God is so 'ambiguous' ...
God came, waited, looked around and went back..confused! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Words alone were ambiguous, unreliable. But what could be reliable, if not words — Julianne Donaldson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous. — Cheyenne Jackson

A man coalesced before me, his face ambiguous, and his voice that of demon spawn. It mocked my existence. — Elle Klass

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen

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. — Heinrich Boll

We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous. — Hamid-Reza Assefi

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

Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas. — Ralph Ellison

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace. — Hugh Prather

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous. — Billy Crudup

For every word their is a listener and probably my words don't suit your ears. So please don't accuse me of being ambiguous — Me

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. — Umberto Eco

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. — Kenzaburo Oe

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

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Obfuscation is the deliberate addition of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection. — Finn Brunton

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time. — Harold Pinter

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier. — Alexander Siddig

Like most people, I feel ambiguous guilt for my inferiors, ambiguous envy for my superiors, and mandatory low-spirits about the system itself. — Martin Amis

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on. — Ursula K. Le Guin

This question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal. — David Hume

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology. — Bryan Sykes

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be. — Jonathan Groff

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. — James Ellroy

People are drawn to religion because for them there is only one thing worse than an ambiguous life, and that is an unambiguous death. — Stephen R. Harrison

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. — Stephen Rea

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious. — Leo Rosten

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. — R.D. Laing

I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate ... I like some detail but not too much detail. — Sophie Blackall

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. — Jerry Garcia

Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous. — James Marcus Bach

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life. — Nancy Kress

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world. — Alexei Sayle

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. — Melvin Maddocks

Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair. — Khalil Gibran

A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right. — Matt McCook

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings. — David Brin

And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes. — Simon R. Green

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller. — James Surowiecki

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. — M. Night Shyamalan

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity. — Walter Kasper

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts. — Richard Eyre

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports. — Eric Schneiderman

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom. — Greg Bear

It's good to have these stories in our holy books, to remind us that they were written by humans. Filthy-minded, morally ambiguous humans. — Suzanne Morrison

Only the lonely, who can teach us, to not ambiguous. — Emha Ainun Nadjib

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. — Bernardo Bertolucci

CHINA'S AMBIGUOUS ROLE — Harsh V. Pant

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody. — Woody Allen

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? — Jami Attenberg

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place. — Hugh Dancy