Quotes About Nuance

We like to say that generalizations are always wrong and usually helpful.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Italian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony. In Mr. Eager's mouth it resembled nothing so much as an acid whistling fountain which played ever higher and higher, and quicker and quicker, and more and more shrilly, till abruptly it was turned off with a click.

Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?" "Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?" "So one would have thought," said the other helplessly. "But things are so difficult, I sometimes think.

Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

As you learn more, the fundamentals become at once simpler but also subtler, deeper, more nuanced, and more meaningful.

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

I don't know anyone who's 100 percent pure - nor do I have any interest in portraying anyone like that.

To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or the talking.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Zijn hersens kenden fijnere nuances dan moderne hersens kunnen bevatten.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet. Iron & Wine seemed to fit with that duality and I thought it would be more interesting to call the project that rather than use Sam Beam.

'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, 'almost' Bordeaux.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.