Unclear Quotes
More Unclear Quotes
"The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.
john ralston saul— "Recession" (The Doubter's Companion (1994))
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ansel adams— Attributed to Adams in: AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world. (1985) Vol 76, Nr. 19-27; p. 3326
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
william baziotes— In: Fifteen Americans, Ehibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, 1952 p. 12
Yes, we will know one another! Yes we will have a glorious reunion! The Scriptures are not unclear on this vital issue.
paul enns— p. 13 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.
alexis de tocqueville— Chapter II (Chapter I-V)
The possibility of a stable economic life with full utilization of our resources is still not sufficiently assured, and it is extremely important that it should be so assured, and that the whole world should accept this as a fact. The work that is being done in econometrics is massive, and undaunted by mathematical difficulties, but it appears, at any rate as viewed from outside, to be unclear as to its aim.
— Arnold Tustin The Mechanism of Economic Systems (1953) p. 1
In a system where ninety percent or more of cases end in a negotiated disposition, it is unclear why the "discounted" punishment imposed in that ninety percent of cases should not rather be considered the norm. Where almost no one pays the "manufacturer's suggested retail price," and almost everyone buys the item at a "discounted" price, no one really gets a "bargain," and the product's real price is what is actually charged in the marketplace.
— Gerard E. Lynch (9 July 2003), Screening versus Plea Bargaining: Exactly What Are We Trading Off?, 55, Stanford Law Review
The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral) R(elativity) and Q(uantum) M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.
carlo rovelli— Quantum gravity (2004, pg. 4)
