Black White Gray Quotes

#1. On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

Neal Shusterman

#2. If that's the case.. Go deeper. To a world darker than black, brighter than white ... Embrace it.

Katsura Hoshino

#3. In a black and white world, Chase and I would never end up together - our mothers had ensured that - but in that small bathroom, under the harsh fluorescent lights, we dragged each other deeper into the gray - the messy, guilt-ridden space that sat between right and wrong.

R.S. Grey

#4. 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

#5. When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

Sydney Pollack

#6. I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

Laura San Giacomo

#8. My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.

Jessica Pare

#9. I was free to appreciate the quiet and the way the yellowish-gray light of the rising sun entered the room, turning everything from black and white to color. The journey from Kansas to Oz right in my own kitchen.

Edward Kelsey Moore

#10. What do you think of all this? Am I a friend or foe - or a little of each? Are the important things black and white, or maybe a little gray?

Svetlana Chmakova

#11. I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

W.G. Sebald

#12. This wonderful gray of acceptance resides between the extremes of black and white thinking; looking for serenity, explore the gray. Part of that acceptance is understanding that life is hard and involves life and death. Part of that acceptance is that I am responsible for my actions.

David W. Earle

#13. But choices are rarely black and white. Right or wrong. They are a million shades of gray.

Dwight Okita

#14. In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

Stan Smith

#15. 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

#16. To her the world really wasn't just black and white, its shades were in varying shades of gray. Circumstance and experience shaped a person from the moment they were born. Everyone was a complex mix of bad and good. "Is

J.M. Dabney

#17. Do I abide by the black-and-white limits I've set for myself because that's who I truly am or because that's who I am while being judged? And how far into that gray area might I venture before I go running back to my familiar boundaries?

K.A. Tucker

#18. When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

Vance Havner

#19. There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don't go. Don't watch it. Don't read it. Don't rent it.

Kevin DeYoung

#20. I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

Sanhita Baruah

#21. Well, the good guys really weren't typical. They really weren't the good guys at all, but if I discovered anything, there was no such thing as white and black. There was a lot of gray in the middle.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

Justin Timberlake

#23. Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

Alison Bechdel

#24. This world is Silver, but it is also gray. There is no black-and-white. When

Victoria Aveyard

#25. I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

Mark Bradford

#26. Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome
black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

Barack Obama

#27. one thing I've learned in my lifetime is that things are very rarely as clear cut as black or white, good or evil, but varying shades of gray depending on which side you view them from.

Wendy Scott

#28. I don't want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man."
"Don't we all. Look. Be what you want
white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up - quicklike, and don't bring me no whiteboy sass."
Hunter's Hunter and Godlen Gray

Toni Morrison

#29. The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#30. Life is not two sheets of paper, one black, one white. Life is a ream of paper, each page a different shade of gray.

Roland Smith

#31. Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?"
"I hope there's gray ... Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

Harry Turtledove

#32. Vamps don't think in black and white. Shades of gray, baby." Faer hefted his sword.

Sophie H. Morgan

#33. Levi was a black-and-white photograph in the dark. All pale skin, gray eyes, streaky hair ...

Rainbow Rowell

#34. Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.

Robert Piper

#35. On clear nights, when the stars were white on black instead of smoggy gray, we'd lie on the roof together and say cheesy things like, 'At least they can't charge us for moonlight.' Although later they did, by way of imposing a curfew and fining those of us who broke it.

Parker Peevyhouse

#36. Nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.

Eric Chaisson

#37. At one end of the national spectrum is white, shining peace - that city-on-a-hill concept. At the other end is black, raging, savage war at the foot of that hill. The space between is the gray zone where the haze of diplomacy and combat meet and bleed into one another. That's where the CIA works.

Jamie Smith

#38. In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

Sameer Kamat

#39. I want you to understand that what is black to one person is white to another. And nothing in this world is so perfect that it is pure white, or so bad it is pure black. Everything concerning human beings comes in shades of gray, Carrie.

V.C. Andrews

#40. I am all of my characters, but none of them in particular. I'm an expat in San Miguel de Allende, the community I write about.
My characters are never black and white--I'm interested in shades of gray and the way people rationalize the bad acts they commit.

John Scherber

#41. It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there is no black or white. There are gradations of gray.

Jodi Picoult

#42. Life had once been clear-cut, black and white, but now, the colors had starting to bleed together into an ugly gray. That gray seemed to follow me everywhere. I just had to remember to keep finding the silver lining.

Cameo Renae

#43. confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds. These words were not invented for an incremental life. "Success" and "failure" serve a world that is black-and-white. And as I said before, it's all just kinda gray.

Sophia Amoruso

#44. Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

Joe Berlinger

#45. 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

#46. When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.

David W. Earle

#47. The world isn't black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism.

Rachel Vincent

#48. I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Gish Jen

#49. In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Paul Dano

#50. 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

#51. In the absence of grace, there is only right and wrong, black and white, and the endless unknowable gray of performance.

Kara Tippetts

#52. The old folks say there is only black and white. That may do for their tidy lives, but it doesn't apply to all of us. We, Supergirls for real and the wretched creature at my feet, live in the gray and the mist. We may never see the stars, but we believe in the dream of them.

Mav Skye

#53. Love is not black and white. It's not even gray. Love is every shade of color in the spectrum, changing with every ray of light given and stolen.

Cassia Leo

#54. First the flame and then the flood:
In the end it's Blackthorn blood.
Seek thou to forget what's past
First thirteen and then the last.
Search not the book of angels gray,
Red or white will lead you far astray.
To regain what you have lost,
Find the black book at any cost.

Cassandra Clare

#55. When she dressed, she put on her Maycomb clothes: gray slacks, a black sleeveless blouse, white socks, and loafers. Although it was four hours away, she could hear her aunt's sniff of disapproval." (Chapter 1)

Harper Lee

#56. Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Pete Townshend

#57. I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

Alan Ladd

#58. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.

Ann Aguirre

#59. Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

Beau Willimon

#60. How truth and lies seemed black and white, but mixed together, they made everything gray and confusing.

Hugh Howey

#61. According to today's Los Angeles Times, Gray Davis now gets negative job ratings from white people, black people, Latinos, Republicans, Independents and even Democrats. Say what you want about the guy but he's a uniter!

Jay Leno

#62. Mama, black and white is boring, deep within the gray is where the real action is.

Jan Tilley

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

Alfie Kohn

#64. You don't see black and white. You see gray. People aren't all good and bad. You have a way of bringing out the good.

Denise Grover Swank

#65. She glanced at the papers he'd been working on. Black and white. He wouldn't see the shades of gray she saw there. The man they sought was a killer. The state of his mind, his emotions, perhaps even his soul, didn't matter to Ben. Maybe they couldn't.

Nora Roberts

#66. Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray
where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.

Sherry L. Hoppe

#67. As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

Joseph C. Wilson

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

Clinton Anderson

#69. I don't think there's a black and white
answer. I think I've been swimming in the gray state of things for so long

Krista Ritchie

#70. Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

Harlan Coben

#71. Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.

Gina Greenlee

#72. When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands
But the scene is grey.

Stephen Crane

#73. Bloody stars, if this was what it was going to be like having both halves of herself merged into one, she wasn't so certain she wanted to do it. Before evrething was morally black or white, and now if was becoming alarmingly gray.

Kady Cross

#74. Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses - one black, one white, and the third red.

Holly Black

#75. Largely excluded from the white masculine political sphere, black male scholars established intellectual organizations where they could not only distance themselves from women but also perform a masculinity parallel to that established by white male scholars.

Deborah Gray White

#76. A person's character, I realize, is never black-and-white. There is so much gray.

Jessica Warman

#77. The difference between black and white is grace, not gray.

Evinda Lepins

#78. The world of Katherine Kavanagh is very clear, very black and white. Not the intangible, mysterious, vague hues of gray that color my world. Welcome to my world.

E.L. James

#79. The line isn't so black and white anymore. I'm pretty sure gray just became my new favorite color.

Colleen Hoover

#80. Set off against gray velvet and still gleaming after all those months was an elegant, polished white gold slide pendant hung on a length of tightly wound black cord.

Abigail Roux

#81. That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

Zakk Wylde

#82. Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Ridley Scott

#83. There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Kim Harrison

#84. We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

Tony Goldwyn

#85. It's all black and white to you, isn't it?" "Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it.

Karen Marie Moning

#86. People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else.
But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray.

Amanda Grace

#87. It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

Nicki Minaj

#88. I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

Barbara Park

#89. Right and wrong
Black and white
And many shades
Of gray
I want color in my life
Color in my dreams.

Lisa Schroeder

#90. My gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin

Tadeusz Rozewicz

#91. Naomi and Turner, even Ronnie, they all see this is as black and white. Good guys verses bad guys. But I learned a long time ago that the world only functions in shades of gray.

C.M. Stunich

#92. John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

Douglas Brinkley

#93. Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

Sue Grafton

#94. Life isn't about the black and white. It's about finding that little sliver of gray and holding on to it. Your silver lining.

Cassie Graham

#95. Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

Roger Zelazny

#96. I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.

Carolyn Jones

#97. He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. 'This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don't let it get complicated. Gray it ain't. It's black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now.

Charles Martin

#98. Maybe there was no right or wrong, no black or white, only a thousand shades of gray when it came to pain and what we each held ourselves responsible for.

Mia Sheridan

#99. Maybe I trust you to be a man and handle the gray reality of truth better than all these kids who still think in black-and-white."

Commander Zeke Waters from The Only Way Out Is In

Lyn Gala

#100. The world isn't always black and white. sometimes, it's gray, and sometimes that gray explodes into colors you never knew existed before.

J.M. Darhower