Indeterminate Quotes

#1. His office led into a larger one in which two women of indeterminate age were attacking typewriters as though they were engaged in a race and the loser was to be executed the next morning.

Victoria Clayton

#2. His memory is perfectly clear

and serves no good, no purpose
at all. He has seen things before

(the fly in the bottle,
the indeterminate will).

Santa Muerte, Saint Death,
we pray to you to swallow our breath.

Michael Palmer

#3. Butterflies ... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures

Elizabeth Goudge

#4. His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Terry Pratchett

#5. The waiting area was jammed with the sort of egalitarian cross-section only genuine misery can provide: Hispanics and blacks and Russians and various indeterminate, red-eyed teenage girls with children you prayed were siblings; junkie veterans petitioning for painkillers they wouldn't get;

Jonathan Lethem

#6. When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

Jacques Ellul

#7. Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

Gertrude Atherton

#8. Love's Course
A boatman crossing Yura Strait
Has lost his rudder, and the boat
Is drifting with uncertain fate,
Like love's course, indeterminate.

Sone No Yoshitada

#9. In order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him.

Brewster Ghiselin

#10. Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

Herbert

#11. Kneeling before him, Regin murmured, "Don't let that Fegley worm get to you." Still staring ahead, the kid slowed his banging. "There's a good ... male of indeterminate species.

Kresley Cole

#12. after an indeterminate amount of time having only bed baths? I'm fine with the safety belt - hell, do I want to fall on the hard floor? No, please, God, no.

Anonymous

#13. The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Claude Bernard

#14. I am X in an indeterminate equation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Eva was assigned to learn her duties from Rita Crane, an older woman of indeterminate age and one of the world's most unsuccessful secret drinkers.

Kathleen Tessaro

#16. And I want nothing more than to wrap myself around him and be carried away to a place where I don't have to think. A place where there's no guilt or fear, no right or wrong, no divine punishments or senseless accidents or indeterminate states.

Tammara Webber

#17. He considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

Odilon Redon

#19. squeezed the present for all it was worth. He believed meaning is found only in the present, for the past is gone and the future looms indeterminate if it arrives at all.

William Manchester

#20. You can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in ...

John Geddes

#21. I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not trust). If the camera was programmed to go off at an indeterminate series of moments, the samplings would be fantastic.

Frederick Sommer

#22. Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

Dave Barry

#23. For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#24. I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#25. I want to support the view that the foundation of reality itself is a unified, indeterminate maze of possibilities.

Danah Zohar

#26. All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else
first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

Sue Monk Kidd

#27. Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal ...

Hans Reichenbach

#28. Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.

Antonin Sertillanges

#29. For better or worse, whether it is a sign of aesthetic complexity or of intellectual indecision, this novel [Frankenstein] offers equally fertile ground to those readers who like their meanings ambiguous and indeterminate and to those who prefer to discern a deeply important doctrine.

Richard T. Nash

#30. I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.

Robert Kennedy

#31. One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.

Stephane Audeguy

#32. Science rejects the indeterminate.

Claude Bernard

#33. Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Immanuel Kant

#34. The other was small, roundish, and moved with an ungainly restlessness, like a number of elderly squirrels trying to escape from a sack. His own age was on the older side of completely indeterminate. If

Douglas Adams

#35. If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

Howard Gardner

#36. You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Elbert Hubbard

#37. Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.

John Stuart Mill