Quotes About Intricacy

What's this? Dumbledore?

In this sense, an object is of the highest degree of complexity if it can do very difficult and involved things.

Las personas somos complicadas. Hay mucho más en nuestro interior de lo que se percibe a simple vista.

There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

This web of lies was growing so convoluted, so branching, and so delicate that a moth's fart might knock it to pieces—

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

He quickly stuffed the book between the cushion and the arm of the sofa. The title alone was enough to kill off brain cells: Within a Budding Grave.

How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

Hope lies in texts that can accommodate and keep alive our intricacy, our complexity, and our density against the onslaught of the terrifying, sweeping simplifications of fascism.

They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

Europe learned that Buddhism was "a Babylon of doctrines so intricate that no one can understand it properly, or describe it.

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.

You remind me people are more than the sum of the metadata one can dig up

Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

The coils of a serpent are even more complex than the burrows of a molehill.

Before we start, you have to understand one very key thing about Amy: She is fucking brilliant. Her brain is so busy, it never works on just one level. She's like this endless archaeological dig: You think you've reached the final layer, and then you bring down your pick one more time, and you break through to a whole new mine shaft beneath. With a maze of tunnels and bottomless pits.

Su cerebro es tan complejo que nunca trabaja únicamente a un nivel. Es como un yacimiento arqueológico interminable: cuando crees que has alcanzado la última capa y dejas caer el pico por última vez, descubres que hay otra mina entera debajo. Con un laberinto de túneles y pozas sin fondo.

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Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.