Quotes About Gray

Her eyes drank in the colors of home—the soft gray of an arctic gull's wing. The clear blue heart of an ice floe.

Late in the afternoon the sky changed to pale gray and there was rain in the air, the atmosphere close and stifling, and a silence clung heavily to the flat colorless plain.

Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?

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

The knock-kneed brown moose, a tired group of ten, yards ahead of her for the last three days, comfort her too. It's like following a pack of grandfathers, their large, weary eyes, red lids sagging, their gray muzzles, puckered as if the world is almost done with them but not quite yet.

The judge—the same one who had seen to Deacon's trial—raised his grizzled gray eyebrows and looked drolly at Jon. Jon smiled back with enough innocence to rehymenate an entire brothel.

Coffin,why no lid? Too antiseptic for Hell, and could the roof of heaven really be made of gray metal?

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray.

Thankfully the rain had softened to a light drizzle, but the murky gray of the sky painted a dreary mausoleum atmosphere.

Stress can be bad for you. We no longer die of smallpox or the plague and instead die of stress-related diseases of lifestyle, like heart disease or diabetes, where damage slowly accumulates over time. It is understood how stress can cause or worsen disease or make you more vulnerable to other risk factors. Much of this is even understood on the molecular level. Stress can even cause your immune system to abnormally target hair follicles, causing your hair to turn gray.

The fat, pumpkin-colored moon rose, turning bloodstains into shadows. All of the colors of shirts and jackets and uniforms paled to the same shade of gray.

The gray has no chance against that smile. It vanishes in a wonderful haze of bright color.

You're trying to paint things as either black or white," he said. "As either good or evil. It's never that neat.

Milo still sported the same mustache I remembered from my childhood visits—a big swooping throwback to nineteenth-century lumbermen and prospectors. Now speckled gray and white, it curled down to enclose his small, thin-lipped mouth parenthetically. This had always made sense to me, since Milo spoke in asides.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

There's a chill in the air that feels like winter, or at least the start of it. This is my least-favorite time of year because everything dies or goes to sleep, and there's too much death and stillness, and the sky turns gray for so long, you think it will never be blue again.

Bright colors don't exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around. "More shootings," Papa says quietly. His face is gray.

It's been so gray and cold; I think we're all due a little sunshine by way of lemon cake.

You are the Wing, I see it clearly," said a voice behind her. She whirled to see That Awful Man standing no more than a pace away. "And you are more than that," he said. "You are a houri, taunting me with your gray eyes and your delectable form!

Love, he thought. That too is love. The old miracle. It not only casts a rainbow of dreams against the gray sky of facts—it also sheds romantic light upon a heap of dung—a miracle and a mad mockery. Suddenly he had the strange feeling of having become, in a remote way, an accomplice.

Via?a este un vis... realitatea este cenu?ie ?i goal?...

There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.