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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Michel de Montaigne

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby

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

John Updike

It was very vague. He said they would look into finding me something.

Jay Paisley

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Bertrand Russell

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

William Cunningham

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

We stress, and underline stress, that the information was vague and unsubstantiated. But there doesn't appear to be any, at this point, threat to the public safety.

Jim Solomons

He apparently made vague, veiled e-mail threats in the past, but nothing that would raise an alarm like this.

Linda Bowman

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.

Mark Levin

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.

Anya Seton

Youngsters find that on Internet chat sites, they can talk about the most intimate of issues with total strangers - including vague notions of wanting to die.

Mafumi Usui

It gets vague as far as how many people would be cut.

Capt. Cory Angell

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Sherwood Anderson

Canada needs to take the human rights engagement with China to a concrete level and move beyond some of the very vague, general, easy platitudes we've heard in the past.

Alex Neve

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There have been vague reports about him heading toward the Northwest area, like toward Oregon or Washington, ... We have not been able to confirm those, but we are not going to rule those out as a possibility.

James Lewis

This is a separate, unrelated matter. The letter is quite vague, but the responsible action is to conduct an investigation.

Jack Ferry

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false.

Charles Sanders Peirce

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The negative share price reaction to these results may reflect certain disappointment... regarding figures which only met, but didn't far exceed, consensus expectations (as the group has been able to achieve in each of the previous two quarterly results announcements) and perhaps a partial evaporation of vague, but continuous, bid speculation.

Jeremy Batstone

No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't know how the ties are going to be resolved.

Jon Alterman

Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.

Chris Van Allsburg

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.

John Pierpont Morgan

Though some local governments have published their own regional administrative maps before, quite a number of regional borderlines are vague and the place names are not in compliance with government standards.

Dai Junliang

The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

George Saunders

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas.

Jonathan Miller

The world is teetering on the brink of conflicts while the Administration's policies are vague, wavering and unclear. Major financial conflicts of interest involving the President, the Attorney General, the Vice President and others in the Administration have been and continue to be exposed.

Cynthia Mckinney

Two blocks from there when we were looking for the probationer, a male adult reported that he was attacked and robbed by physical force, ... He gave a vague description of the suspect, but we were unable to find the individual.

John Mccutcheon

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert

The legislation is pretty vague in that respect.

Chris Spear

We're at around 1,200 registered volunteers. That's a really good testament because this is kind of a vague thing, but it's a really important volunteer job, and we're still recruiting.

Jennifer Cole

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

George F. Kennan

From the very beginning, '60 Minutes' was clear that the only response they would take to this story was from President Clinton. . . . They could not have been more vague about the actual allegations.

Jay Carson

A lot of these countries do have some weapons laws but they are very old-fashioned and vague.

Jean Baker

I learned to be as vague as you can while also being direct. I didn't want to say anyone was my top choice, but I would say they were on the top of my list. On the whole, the coaches are going to respond in a vague manner, too.

Clay Bartlett

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Mark Twain

The ordinance is written so vague that if anyone complains ... it's a violation.

Ron Shreeve

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Kate Chopin

If you look at the part about absolute secrecy, that in a nutshell, even though it is very vague, is of utmost importance [to the hearing examiners].

Allison Hrestak

My understanding is that the law in New York is very vague when it comes to price gouging.

Marc Violette

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Theodore Dreiser

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.

Lynette Matsushima

After discarding the evidence that is too inherently weak or vague for any sensible person to rely on it, prosecution evidence is such that a reasonable jury or court martial board properly directed could never reach the high standard of proof required to be sure of the guilt of any defendant.

Jeff Blackett

They paint us all with the same broad brush, and it's really too vague.

Jim Bolt

How much of the proceeds actually reach the charities? A portion? After profits? A percentage? Many companies leave that deliberately vague.

Trent Stamp

It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn't enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.

Norman Baker

The numbers are the numbers, ... and they are a very precise measurement of a very vague concept.

Michael Swanson

Our hospitals are taking a hard line on that. The law is sufficiently vague on that point to allow them to do that.

Pete Rodda

This is simply an attempt by committee Democrats to clarify the factual record, where Mr. Starr was vague, evasive, forgetful or perhaps not altogether candid.

James Jordan

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

Hugh Prather

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

Kathy Vogt

I'm not in favor of it if they're vague about what they are going to do with the property. Without a business plan I don't think it's wise to jump into a purchase like this.

Cheryl Anderson

It is the other way around. You may have to buy your domain in order to protect your trademark or brand, and only then are the policies forced upon you. They are as yet vague and undefined, so yes, we are concerned about de facto regulation disguised as self-regulation.

Tom Hymes

You can't be vague on things like this.

Dale Groutage

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.

Vin Weber

The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.

Takeshi Kitano

The case against Saddam focuses on a concrete event, while the charges against Milosevic are a bit vague and sometimes political.

Branislav Tapuskovic

We came to this fair to meet people face-to-face because an application is so vague. We know that people here are in school, so they might not have that much of a career background.

Mark Webster

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

Paul Handley

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

Rucks Robinson

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

George Ade

I really loved the words (red wanting blue) and I thought they were a very good reflection of being in a band. I felt it was an appropriate name with which we could play anywhere, from a coffee shop to a heavy metal bar and it wouldn't matter. I wanted a name that was vague.

Scott Terry

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

Chris Asplen

It's so vague; it doesn't spell out Wyoming. The bar needs to be raised.

Dale Groutage

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

Larry McMurtry

You will see everything that's in there. What is in there will change everything about how they live on the island. We're erring on the side of giving away too much as opposed to being too vague.

Damon Lindelof

In France, the auditions and the plays aren't good, they're too laid back. And I remember in the London school you had a voice teacher, you had an improvisation course, you had to study authors, you had a lot of things. In France, you just act in a lot of scenes, but it's too vague.

Eva Green

He's showing that he's a veteran, talking tough but not too tough. Promising plans, but staying vague about them. It's a perfect campaign so far.

Ephraim Inbar

I'm concerned that we define blight in a way that won't be struck down by the courts as vague.

Edward Meyer