Quotes About Nuance

Las formas son vehículos e instrumentos, y los vehículos e instrumentos no pueden ser llamados buenos o malos sin un contexto.

The most skilled of writing always stems from that which is not so.

Perfection is in the little things

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous. ("New York Blues")

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

As veterans we should be smarter about how we talk about things.

I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

We know there are good sugars and bad sugars, and we don't discuss whether food in general is good or bad for us. We need to be far more nuanced when we talk about the effects of video games.

I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.

There's so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.

A good barbecue sauce should be as complex as the bouquet of a fine wine. It should have notes of sweetness, acidity, and a hint of pepperiness.

but even he knew that fine didn't mean fine. The scale went great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.

It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there is no black or white. There are gradations of gray.

If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably.

It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things.

good-bad,right-wrong,once you tag things like that,you lose the ability to see the complete truth.... A murderer can also be a loving father. Don't tag things. Words are insufficient to describe the picture in totality. Try not to get trapped in the dictionary meaning of words.

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," F. Scott Fitzgerald