Harry Norman Turtledove Quotes

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.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

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

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

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

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

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

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.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

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

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

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

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

I personally feel that no human is a hero or a villain. All of us have our grey sides, and that is why grey interests me: because it's more human, more life-like.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

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

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.