Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Mahesh Rangarajan

Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength. His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a big advantage.

Mahesh Rangarajan

Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength, ... His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a big advantage.

Robert Webb

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

It's not designed to change anything necessarily, but rather to clarify so that in the future we don't have any ambiguity in the code.

Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

The statute says 'public hearing,' and if there's any ambiguity it errs on the side of the employee's wishes, which are clear.

We are talking about people who prey on young children. There isn't any way we can be too strict on these sick people. There should be no ambiguity in our laws. I would even want to look at something as extreme as castration for these people.

Godfrey Reggio

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

John Bolton

We haven't made any decision yet on the specifics, but I think it should be a very strong resolution, leaving no ambiguity that we expect Syrian cooperation.

Tony Gilroy

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

John Updike

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

Joe Cornish

One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I don't know if there is any ambiguity to it. I don't take what he said lightly.

John Crowley

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

Mike Doyle

One is the pin the blame on the media with the references to the tabloid spectacle, ... One is the assertion of full cooperation with the police. One is the carving of a moat around his private life. And one is the use of constructive ambiguity with references to not being perfect but with no explanation for what those imperfections are.

Andrew Cohen

That clarity is not going to happen and the ambiguity helps the White House, which now can hold indefinitely and without charges another U.S. citizen without having to worry about any restrictions from the justices.

I will tell you - so there's no ambiguity - that is the banner under which I will run.

We do have some concerns about the ambiguity of the language.

Carlton Cuse

We purposely design the show with a big amount of ambiguity so people can theorize about what a certain scene means. This allows the fans to participate in the process of discovery.

Mark Hanson

I do not believe for us as Lutherans, human sexuality is a church-defining or church-dividing issue, ... We can live with some ambiguity about these questions.

He is the golden boy of Croatian sport and Croatian tennis and there is no ambiguity about his nomination.

There is a great deal of ambiguity and uncertainty in what they did, and I would not predict how the courts will decide this.

There is no ambiguity here. It's beyond question the courts may not issue an injunction prohibiting further reporting in this case.

Carlton Cuse

I think we very much want to put those things into the show that lead to discussion and analysis and that's what makes the show engaging. It's not a show in which everything is spoon-fed to you, which is the problem with a lot of American television. There is room for ambiguity in this story.

I have certainly seen US and UK leaders in Europe who struggle. They personally might not have the tolerance for ambiguity and go into meetings where things do not seem bolted down - yet the numbers are good and they scratch their heads and wonder how.

Brendan Fletcher

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

wanted to make sure there was no ambiguity regarding the things we weren't happy about.

Nancy Kress

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

You could really have divisions in the country that are made deeper by the ambiguity of the constitution.

Andrew Forrest

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

Barry Eisler

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.