Ambiguous Quotations

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

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

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.

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

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

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

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

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

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.

If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

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

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

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

Nuclear weapons, nuclear programs are not something that one should leave in an ambiguous state.

Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug.

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.

Hence, low bond yields are ambiguous for policy. It's a classic on the one hand, on the other hand speech.

I think the instruction is Rome's answer to all the different pressures brought to bear on it, ... It's presented in a somewhat ambiguous fashion with in-house vocabulary that allows for a range of interpretation to be taken from it. A lot will depend on where the bishop falls on the issue beforehand.

Liu's case could serve as a warning to those who attempt to breach athletes' rights by ambiguous means. His appeal could enhance the awareness of athletes' legal rights.

I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famous, but as often the case with these things, a writer can turn against his or her most successful creation; hence, he killed him off (in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem') and brought him back by popular request. And, of course, people did sort of confuse them and assume if he could invent these complicated mysteries, then he could also solve them.

We're bringing the real world insofar as we can through stories into your living room, and we're trying to use the power of stories to illuminate morally complicated and morally ambiguous situations in the grand tradition

The proposals being put out are far too ambiguous from our point of view. They looked as though there had been a hidden agenda to maintain the status quo,

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

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

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

to register the ambiguous presence of white folks in a segregated black world -- the way you see them nowhere and feel them everywhere.

The government has only made cosmetic changes to its vague and ambiguous proposal. Their plan remains unprecedented, excessive, and harmful. The exercise of the past few days does not substitute in any way for a legitimate process, in which Microsoft could have challenged the government's assumptions and assertions related to its unprecedented breakup plan and draconian regulations.

There is nothing ambiguous about what Arts-Studio.com is doing. It is a clear and blatant violation of copyright law. When you use something for your own financial gain that someone else created, that is stealing.

There have been a lot of morally ambiguous male characters finding acceptance on TV, but we haven't seen that with female characters.

Courts recognized Mr. Baird as suffering from mental illness at the time he committed the murders, and Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm recently wrote that Mr. Baird is 'insane in the ordinary sense of the word.' It is difficult to find reasons not to agree, ... However, I reached today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity. To me, it suffices to note that, had the sentence of life without parole been available in 1987, the jury and the State would have imposed it with the support of the victims' families.

I shall leave you with an ambiguous answer.

The worst thing you can have is a poorly drafted, ambiguous agreement that leads to years of litigation.

The rules are ambiguous and you can't call up (Voters Services) and get an opinion, ... In 1999 that was (a) result of erroneous instructions that we got from Voter Services. I'm very skeptical.

I wanted it to be really ambiguous so people could read into it their own way.

This is real research - slow, serious, scientifically rigorous and painstaking work. It will go in strange directions, produce ambiguous results along the way, and raise a lot of new questions, but we're convinced that in 10 to 15 years, we will change history.

Consumers are always concerned about the economy but the key is whether they are predisposed to increasing caution when it comes to spending. I think today's report demonstrates that the hurricanes had an ambiguous affect on spending.

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

If the nature of the report paves the way for some sort of permanent mechanism, that could help tremendously. But if its ambiguous or hostile towards the idea, then we will be in the exact same position as we were this time around.

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

However, I reach today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity,

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

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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

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

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

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

The idea is that your body, on this very deep, unconscious level, is controlling a virtual person. It's a much more complex, ambiguous type of interactivity, but it's very real interactivity.

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

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

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

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

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.