Indefinite Quotations

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.

We felt it was better to go in this direction at this time. It's not indefinite but the decision is to just go with the captain at this time.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

I find it extremely hypocritical that Washington is investigating this group for the 'crime' of traveling to Cuba. The U.S. government is flagrantly violating even the most basic norms of human rights - such as indefinite detention without charges, denial of fair trials and, most importantly, torture. There are far greater crimes at play here than Witness Against Torture's travel logistics.

He will not be operating a Green Line trolley for an indefinite period of time.

Our intent is for an indefinite period. This definitely is a positive development and validates Pakistan's call for cease-fire along the Line of Control.

Our intent is for an indefinite period, ... This definitely is a positive development and validates Pakistan's call for cease-fire along the Line of Control.

(Martz) advised us today that after he met with his consulting physician, his physical condition has worsened and he will be readmitted to the hospital...As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

We are not here for an indefinite period of time.

This report by the U.S. government provides a thorough review of today's human rights practices around the globe, except for one glaring omission -- its own record. The United States government considers itself a moral leader on human rights issues, but its record of indefinite and arbitrary detentions, secret 'black sites' and outsourced torture in the 'war on terror' turns it from leader to human rights violator.

We felt now was a good time to sell, and it was sold as a mobile home park and will continue to run as a mobile home park for an indefinite period of time. They may eventually develop it, but the new owners didn't confide in me so I don't know for sure.

We expect them to have an indefinite run.

At present, the Social Security trustees estimate that the unfunded liability over the indefinite future to be $10.4 trillion, ... The shortfall in Medicare is calculated at several multiples of the one in Social Security.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -- a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. The mind grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty ingredients, grows, by certain necessity, to their stature. Scarce anything so convinces me of the capacity of the human intellect for indefinite expansion in the different stages of its being, as this power of enlarging itself to the compass of surrounding emergencies.

The state's water policy and all its plans for restoration of the delta are predicated on one flawed assumption -- that the delta is a fixed landscape and will look the same for the indefinite future. And it won't.

Some people have questioned, 'well, you put us on a general alert a couple of weeks ago and nothing happened,' ... This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time, and from time to time we may issue the same general alert again.

Apparently after Mr. Peltier met with the neighborhood, they indicated they still felt more comfortable with having a time frame on the permit than having one for an indefinite period. He (Peltier) submitted an application to see if it could be changed.

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

The Biblical record itself makes it plain that the days of creation are literal days, not long indefinite ages. If he wished to convey the idea of long geological ages, however, he could surely have done it far more clearly and effectively in other words than in those which he selected.

The U.S. economy has the potential to grow at 3 or 3.5 percent real growth for the indefinite future,

Indefinite detention has a special way of driving people a little crazy and provides a greater incentive to riot.

If the U.S. refuses to comply with the universal human rights principles, what reason do other nations have to comply? Torture is counter productive and the indefinite detention of prisoners without trial does not make America safer.

I guess we're just in an indefinite holding pattern, ... It's about Chris Carter and Fox coming to terms. Gillian and I are signed on. We're ready to go. Chris and Fox are slugging it out.

By contrast, the indefinite military detention without trial of citizens seized in the United States because of suspected wrongdoing is far from a fundamental incident of waging war.