Gray Area Quotes

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That’s what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.

Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can’t see yet.

Madrigal sniffed herself. “I’m almost sure I don’t smell.” “Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.

People hate me, or they love me. There’s nothing in between. There is no gray area.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn’t come with easy answers.

I guess what I get excited about when I’m thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.

So, if they’re coming in and having to do scenes that involve nudity or sexuality, in some way, the utmost important thing is that everyone feels comfortable and safe. If there’s any gray area, that’s going to be a problem.

In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It’s a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?

There’s a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it’s where most of life happens.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You’re on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack… but there is a gray area between peace and war.

I’m always interested in furthering our sport. Like, I would love to be a correspondent newsperson, somebody who informs the fans a little bit more and able to bring a little more closure to our sport where it’s more of a black and white as opposed to the gray area.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you’re in rehab. There’s not a lot of gray area.

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

We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there’s going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we’ll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.

There’s a gray area there that I’m satisfied is not gray.

As an actor, you’re always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.

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.

It’s my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there’s a lot of gray area.

Back in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.

It’s not hard to get your way when it’s your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they’re not around. I don’t really like the sound of that, ’cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I’m just very black and white when it comes to my business. There’s really no gray area.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.

There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being – exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well.

It’s my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there’s a lot of gray area

The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent.

I’m a great example of somebody who is gay but exists on a very complicated gender spectrum. I’m okay with that uncertainty, and I’m okay with existing in a gray area and not always being sure.

I’m not like a legend that – so I’m sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I’m creating music and I’m not saying there isn’t an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

War’s not black and white; it’s gray. If you don’t fight in the gray area, you’re going to lose.

Sometimes it’s better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn’t clear cut, there are always gray areas.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a ‘gray area’ for social interactions.

I’m drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who’s probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That’s the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they’ll make. There’s a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it’s really about the nature.