I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey. — Jeffrey Archer
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. — Jodie Foster
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. — Van Morrison
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. — Joey Dunlop
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy. — Chogyam Trungpa
Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white. — Waite Phillips
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black. — Immortal Technique
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. — Robert Smithson
Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today. — Dr. Seuss
I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow. — Francisco Goya
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos. — Jim Hightower
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive. — Robert Frost
Keep a mid course between two extremes. — Ovid
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it. — Ann Brashares
Slight changes simply make a blur. — J. R. R. Tolkien
In black and white you suggest, in color you state. — Paul Outerbridge
I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life. — Diego Maradona
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Duke Ellington
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No Gray Area Quotes
In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all. — David Baldacci
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence. — Dan Brown
Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts. — Kobe Bryant
Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky. — Annette Bening
Sometimes, there are no simple or easy solutions to gray area problems. Or, put differently, the "solution" is working intelligently, with many other people, for months or even years - guided by a basic direction and a few central values that really matter to you and others. — Joseph Badaracco
There's no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the side of good can feel righteous in their approach to eliminating evil. There's no ambiguity there. — Benjamin Bratt
Grey Area Quotes
If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas. — Damon Hill
I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me. — Belinda Carlisle
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened. — Bill Parcells
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book. — Danica Patrick
I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas. — Jack Kirby
Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end. — Terryl L. Givens
The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area. — David Bowie
Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. I don't understand grey area that well, and I've been working at that. — Kathleen Hanna
Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that way in movies, especially characters for women. So you end up being either one thing or the other. — Emily Mortimer
Grey Day Quotes
Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away. — George Harrison
I think love keeps on changing every day.
It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey. — Ville Valo
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan
The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!' — John Hench
But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self. — Mark Tobey
To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist. — Matthew Bellamy
One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey. — Patrick Carney
My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was. — Rebecca Mader
Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere. — Willa Cather
Grey Areas Quotes
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest. — Arca
I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality. — Emmy Rossum
I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all. — Paul Bettany
In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions. — Paul Bettany
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The effects of obesity on the brain mimic those of Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimaging data shows that obesity and Alzheimer’s disease are linked to gray matter atrophy in brain regions involved in attention and areas involved in reason, problem-solving, and comprehension. — Rhonda Patrick
Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful. — Isaiah Washington
I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket. — Brian McKnight
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens. — Scott Adams
The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies. — Robert Redford
The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area. — Edward Jay Epstein
I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs. — Andy Gray
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong. — Dan Brown
I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence. — Liz Garbus
I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men. — Evan Rachel Wood
I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong. — Graham Elliot
Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you. — Julie Murphy
It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices. — Scott Yanow
Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism. — Temple Grandin
I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better. — Jeff Lindsay
I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore. — Kurt Sutter
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain. — Emily Giffin
I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones. — Ayshay
Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area. — Laini Taylor
Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can't see yet. — Robin Gross
There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray. — Robert Conrad
Tempered intuition is more than beneficial. It's usually critical to resolving gray area problems. In other words, in the end, these problems are resolved by someone in a position of authority saying this is what I think we should do and will do to address this problem. — Joseph Badaracco
Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do. — Joseph Badaracco
The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area. — Ti West
I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature. — Matt Reeves
I didn't have song rights for the first video because I didn't know that it was going to do what it did. So for the second video, I decided better safe than sorry. It is a really gray area as to whether or not you even need song rights to make a video like that. — Judson Laipply
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being - exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well. — Porochista Khakpour
As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice. — Kyle MacLachlan
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. — Laurie Foos
Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area. — Wil Wheaton
So, if they're coming in and having to do scenes that involve nudity or sexuality, in some way, the utmost important thing is that everyone feels comfortable and safe. If there's any gray area, that's going to be a problem. — Michael Sheen
When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area and people get a bit uncomfortable and awkward. You just get through it. But, it became very clear on this that that can't happen. There can't be any gray areas on this because there are actors and actresses coming in for a day or a couple of days, as well as people who are there regularly. — Michael Sheen
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