Quotes About Nuance

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Sometimes no quotation works

There is always a double meaning in life...

I would argue that in the scientific rush forward, much of the nuance of bike racing has been lost. The subtleties of pack riding, bike handling, and butt kicking have been usurped by wattage, functional threshold power, and kilojoules.

Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

In truth, we are all fast and slow, strong and weak, motivated and lazy in a thousand tiny ways throughout our days that the generalizations simply don't capture.

Life is complicated. You don't only have two simple choices: drunk or teetotaler; saint or sinner. It's more complicated than that.

Sometimes the alternative to black and white isn't gray; it's, say, orange.

I definitely don't generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

We cannot generalise anything in life. We cannot say media people are like this, film people are like this, or doctors are like this.

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

You can say a lot of things to someone while being pretty clear between the lines.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.