Quotes About Shades

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

Life isn't black or white, it's all sorts of shades of grey.

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.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

On television, there isn't much scope to do different roles. I try to bring some new shades to my roles, and I try to play them differently. I think I have been able to manage that pretty well.

As an actor, it is great to experiment with roles of varying shades and I have been part of some fabulous films.

You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.

Everything was so clear-cut to the student mind; the truth was passionately proclaimed, rather than half-believed in, which was how more experienced people thought of things. The more experienced had generally discovered that there were no longer any privileged, exclusive truths – there were just the various shades of possibility.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

She turned back to inspect a bank of greens: olive, jade, leaf, kiwi, lime, a silver-green like the back of birch leaves, a bright pistachio.

Bean looked over at Zuzu and Vanessa's Graphing chart. They had done it all in different shades of pink.

We would be better served as communicators and decision-makers if we thought less about whether we are confident in our beliefs and more about how confident we are. Instead of thinking of confidence as all-or-nothing (" I'm confident" or "I'm not confident"), our expression of our confidence would then capture all the shades of grey in between.