87 Vague Quotes for You to Enjoy

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe

Life Death Best Other Say Shadowy Shall Divide Boundaries Begins Ends Where Which Who Vague

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God. Ellen G. White

God Faith Wonderful Vain Favor Hopeful Must Some Only Through Idea Make Becomes Sinner Effort Child Order Gain Connecting Many Believing Jesus Vague Vague Idea

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer. Robert J. Shiller

You People Procrastination Decision Thought Other Hesitation Crisp Intrude Taken Feel Over Like Answer Issues Get May Often Procrastinate Ask Doubts Meanwhile Why Things Need Vague

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. J. P. Morgan

Problem Simple Thinking Difficulty Changing Solved Some No Problem Until Reduced Concrete Very Essential Form Element Specific Vague

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. Helen Keller

Sad Me Think About Touch Seldom Never Like Perhaps Make Limitations Yearning Times Just Breeze Among Flowers Vague

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley

Evil Enormous Pretense Menacing Only Makes Does Exist Pious Vague

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. Alexis de Tocqueville

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. Felix Mendelssohn

Music Me Soul Words Better Easily Thousand Seem Genuine Misunderstood Ambiguous Than Which Comparison Fills Things Vague

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on. John Scofield

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. John Tukey

Better Made Right Question Approximate Exact Wrong Answer Always Question Than Precise Often Which Far Right Vague

Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits. Louise Bourgeois

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. Murray Gell-Mann

Physics Word Sense Changes Chaos Indefinitely System Outcome Rather Writers Particular Namely Course Nonlinear Condition Lot Often Tiny Sensitive Means Used Initial Phenomenon Vague

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. Sherwood Anderson

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. Victor Hugo

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything. Adam Driver

Religion People Parents Giving Terrible Because Understand Answer Just Anything Meaning Us Your Help Why Here Vague

At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex. Alexandra Petri

Better Job Sense Recipe Complex Respond Harvard Better Job Tend Could Students Celebrities Celebrity Where Themselves Vague

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? Alfred de Vigny

Judge Thought Feeling Birth Our Minds Ourselves Gives Weigh Also Always Just Cloudy Which Forms Descend Actions Search Vague

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time. Antonin Scalia

Time Respect Constitution Law Protection Those Punishments Laws Cruel New Equal Terms Equal Protection Unusual Accept Due Exist Process Fully Things Apply Phenomena Vague

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it. Bernardo Bertolucci

Love Cinema Dreamers Revolution Late Total Directors Like French Italy Movement Sixties Happened Fantastic Fifties Homage Early Vague

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase. Bob Beauprez

Made Increase Spending Willingness Obama Trillion Exchange Re-Election Accept Reduced Least Dollar References Campaign Tax Tax Increase Barack Barack Obama Vague

Crises like the Mirai botnet can't be prevented by vague calls to protect our cybernetworks or platitudes about working with private industry. We need to be able to force recalls on consumer devices with massive security vulnerabilities. Brianna Wu

Our Crises Security Able About Consumer Devices Like Massive Protect Force Industry Calls Vulnerabilities Private Working Platitudes Need Vague

I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in. Bruce Robinson

Leia follows me like a vague smell. Carrie Fisher

Me Smell Follows Like Leia Vague

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. Charles Sanders Peirce

Definite Evolution Know Proceeds Vague

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