Vague Quotes

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.

Vague goals produce vague results

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

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

Passion is born of vague hopes.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.