Emily Giffin 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.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

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

There are gray areas in everything.

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.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

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

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

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

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

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

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'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

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

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

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Life is never free of contradictions.

I'm full of contradictions.

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

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.