Barbara Park Quotes

You either are or you're not.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

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

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

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

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

There is a segment of the right that doesn't care about winning, what I call zealotry masquerading as principle.

Those who never retract their opinions, love themselves more than they love truth.

I differ from most of you on most of the issues of life, and I’m going to keep it up.

Sure I'm obsessed with it. And I'm absolutely certain I'm right, and nobody's going to change my mind.

… contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.

I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way.

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

I was the typical 20-, 25-, 28-year-old going around, going, 'Life is great. Life is fine.'

Formula 1 is the sort of place where people tend to have an opinion about everything, and usually, they tend to believe their own opinion is the right one, even if it relates to someone else.

I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I'm a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.

I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.