Quotes About Nuance

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

There's a natural human tendency to classify things as all good or all bad, but with cultural changes, it's better to see the gray areas and the trade-offs.

you. Because people are complex

She spoke with the air of the artist, playing out each nuance until it wasn't a nuance anymore.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.

Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

It was kindly meant. But kindly meant was complicated. There were lines you had to draw. There were correct responses. On the one hand there was laugh and say something funny back, on the other there was how dare you talk to me like that. It depended.

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

I've spent enough time studying languages to know that almost any phrase can have two meanings

In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burned into baking asphalt.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

I always hate taking categorical positions.

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

I always look for contradiction in a character.