Protagoras Quotes

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Everybody has their good days and their bad days, there's always two sides to a story.

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

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

Darkness is not always bad, just as light is not always good.

There's two heads to every coin.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

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

I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.

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

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

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.

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.