Shades Of Gray Quotes

• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Black And White, Shade, Behavior

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• Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

  Timothy Geithner

  Fog, Choices, Done

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• That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

  Emily Giffin

  Shade, Happy Endings, Sometimes

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

  Blake Ross

  Entrepreneur, Shade, Gray

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• The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Black And White, Interesting, Alive

  "Tom Hiddleston Talks "The Avengers" Aftermath, the Darker Tone, His Ownership of the Character, and More on the Set of "Thor: The Dark World"". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

  Alexis Denisof

  Believe, Reality, Shade

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Light, Hands

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

  Neil Cavuto

  People, Literature, Shade

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Judging, Mind

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• 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?

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Heart, Cutting

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.194, St. Martin's Press

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• Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Risk, Ignorant

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• I’ve learned that a storm isn’t always just bad weather, and a fire can be the start of something. I’ve found out that there are a lot more shades of gray in this world than I ever knew about. I’ve learned that sometimes, when you´re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is. And finally, I’ve learned that life isn’t really about failure and success. It’s about being present, in the moment when big things happen, when everything changes, including myself.

  Cynthia Hand

  Moving Forward, Fire, Weather

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• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Curves, Color, Lines

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• Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.

  Robert Adams

  Artist, Trying, Records

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Clouds, Self

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• Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.

  Billy Joel

  Philosophy, Color, Rainbow

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• A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

  Steven Tyler

  Country, Book, Black And White

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• If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.

  James Patterson

  Fighting, Thinking, Shining

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction”, p.306, Random House

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• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Black And White, Thinking

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• The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.

  Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

  Black And White, Two, Choices

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• What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

  James Lileks

  Butterfly, Simple, Rhinos

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• Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

  Clinton Anderson

  Mother, White, Black

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• It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

  Don Hewitt

  Real, Moving, Hero

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• The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Color, Orange

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• Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

  Mary Balogh

  Philosophical, Happy Life, Thinking

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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