Quotes about Ambiguity

People dont feel safe no more, he said. We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We dont know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We dont even know what color they'll be.

A halfman on a skatecart oared past with leather chocks.

Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed...

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where -' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.

Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.

Nothing surprises me, I can anticipate others' reactions, I understand what gestures mean, silences, formulas of courtesy, ambiguous responses. Only there do I feel comfortable socially—despite the fact I rarely behave as I'm expected to—because there I know how to behave and my good manners rarely fail me.