#vague

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. ↗

— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

#built #exact #exact science #feeling #greatness

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#actively #advance #behind #body #christianity

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#famine #inconvenience #now #plan #price

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#adam #adam sandler #better #between #brooks

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York. ↗

— Laura Bush

#i #i can #moment #never #new

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#details #imprisoned #life #material #mind

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#attributes #fine #hair #head #kids

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#certain #certain ways #ideas #movies #notions

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#because #came #elvis #gene #greased

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ↗

— Charles Ives

#nearness #perfect #times #truth #vagueness