Emily Giffin Quotes

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

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

There's no good guys and bad guys.

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

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

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

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.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

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.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

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

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.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.