Vague Quotes

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

We are getting a little tired of this kind of Kafkaesque treatment of people, where vague allegations are made and actions are taken against individuals and organizations.

The government has only made cosmetic changes to its vague and ambiguous proposal. Their plan remains unprecedented, excessive, and harmful. The exercise of the past few days does not substitute in any way for a legitimate process, in which Microsoft could have challenged the government's assumptions and assertions related to its unprecedented breakup plan and draconian regulations.

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.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Portions of this are somewhat vague. We would need to update daily what businesses had business with the city.

I think men are drawn to Pilates because they have this vague notion it will help them with back issues. But they stick with it because it truly makes them feel better.

One of the things we are arguing is that this law in unconstitutionally vague. It bans burning any combustible substance which could be candles or incense. It's not restricted at all to tobacco.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like. I keep it vague.

Mutual respect and courtesy is one of the things that holds this vague organization together and that is in short supply.

Most 'silent' heart attacks really aren't silent; they're just not noticed. If questioned carefully, many patients will recall some vague symptoms, such as indigestion or back pain, that they blamed on something else at the time.

Restart monies are rather vague, but there are great opportunities in this district.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

He's been real, real, real vague. A lot of new developments that we've been learning about have been from you guys (reporters). He's really been trying to keep it away from us, because he wants us focused on football, and not have us concerned about his health.

We wanted to duplicate the oaken doors of the entrance but had only vague descriptions of the detailed carving. So we issued an appeal to anyone who might have married in the church, because couples often pose for photos outside the church doors. People sent their wedding albums or photographs of their grandparents as newlyweds. We went from ignorance to knowing exactly the designs that allowed the wood artisans to create new doors exactly in the image of the old.

This vague issue of corruption hanging over Republicans is not good, because it is the one thing on which Democrats don't have to have an alternative policy. I don't want that cloud over us going into [next year's] elections.

The sense of guilt implies in some vague outline the ideas of a broken moral order and an offended God.

To me it almost argues for another intelligence, to have to redirect this very vague information.

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

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.