Quotes About Nuance

Para algo soy puertorriqueño, es decir, isleño hasta cierto punto, negro negado y blanco sin serlo. Un híbrido, la mitad de algo, el doble del doble.

The Kadetskys were atheists—"lowercase a," her father always said, afraid that deification could slip into a nuance of typography.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

If you called for nuance, you were part of the problem.

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

nothing is black and white except for mathematics and pandas.

No man is ever just one thing.

I know that no matter how liberal or progressive I profess to be, no matter how successfully, how diligently I seek to be enlightened and nuanced in my understanding of the world and those around me, I know that there still is a tiny, virulent nugget, a germ of prejudice that exists deep within me — the product of those stereotypes and awful jokes of childhood and adolescence, and that it must always be powerfully held at bay by reason, understanding and love.

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

To "see both sides" of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides. —Idries Shah, REFLECTIONS

The English and German words are almost identical: "tact" and "takt." The cultural definitions, however, are about as similar as if they were "goose down" and "blitzkrieg.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Sometimes a story just needs an ending, and I used to not be a creative enough person to think of an ending to a romantic story that isn't a wedding or a death. This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life. All I had to do now was move on.

This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.

La belleza de la literatura reside en los malentendidos.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Diplomacy is beautiful, but it must also follow the famous maxim of nothing in excess.

If you say the same word a million times will it lose its meaning?

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.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Nothing is black or white.

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

There are easier ways to say these things," it admitted. "But some things shouldn't be said easily.