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
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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
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
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
You can't be vague on things like this.
Dale Groutage
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
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
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