Unclear Intentions Quotes

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting? Is she being coy? Does she know what she's getting into?' I didn't understand this woman.

Women can be made to feel like that makes them seem 'too demanding,' but it's better than wasting time on someone who isn't planning any future with you.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

I deal out of a reality that isn't real. I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. I don't really know what I do.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

You know, people are saying, they don't understand, really, what I'm doing.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

When I was growing up, you never knew whether people were being serious or not. There was a lot of nodding and winking.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

When the Japanese say yes to us, they often mean no.

Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.

Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.