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Ambiguity Quotes - Page 2

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

John Updike
Ambiguity, Clash, Extremes
John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

Felix Frankfurter
May, Instruments, Ambiguity
"McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co., 336 U.S. 187". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. February 14, 1949.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

Saul Bellow
Ambiguity, Better Now
Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Robert Redford
Ambiguity, Complexity

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

Paul Ryan
Moral, Ambiguity, White Supremacy
Source: www.wbur.org

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

Mohsin Hamid
Book, Echoes, Ambiguity

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

Mary Harron
Thinking, Ambiguity
Source: www.believermag.com

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

Lillian B. Rubin
Women, Often Is, Ambiguity
Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Jason Beghe
Moral, Moral Ambiguity, Ambiguity

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.

James Arthur
Thinking, Clarity, Ambiguity
Source: www.guernicamag.com

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

Frank Moore Cross
Want, Human Condition, Ambiguity
Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.

Albert Serra
Facts, Language, Ambiguity
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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