Quotes About Nuance

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore together, it takes a collective sharing of power, creativity, and perspectives to become agile and nuanced enough to lead into the uncertain future.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

or are there always shades of gray when it comes to matters of the heart?

Even if things are common, there's more than one side to them. There's more than one side to one-sided things. One-sided people too.

N'est-ce pas l'une des vertus de l'écriture que de coucher sur la même feuille horizontale le futile et l'exceptionnel ? Tout reprend dans un livre l'épaisseur négligeable de l'encre écrasée.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

And for many of the other questions, the answers I received were cloaked in the sort of highly polished public relations vagueness that makes responses so measured and couched in nuance that they are essentially meaningless.

Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.

The color of truth is grey.

To us, something can be uplifting even if the tone of it is not cheerful - it can be uplifting because it's just so well done.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

You can't have a nuanced debate on Twitter, it's just people shouting.