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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.
Nature's never quite
Sure she hasn't erred
In her vague design.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.
Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.
Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.
My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.
Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.
Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.
I keep my options open about my next story, there will always be those vague discussions at home.
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
