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Quotes About Complications

He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that supports the survival of the fittest, with all of its dire complications. Byran was able to envision the kind of society that Social Darwinism would create- the kind of exploitation that comes from unbridled capitalism, for instance- and chose to war against it.
~ Tony Campolo
It was fuckups within fuckups.
~ Peggy Orenstein
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
~ Alan Sillitoe
Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.
~ David Baldacci
If two people get married in West Virginia and then pull up stakes and move to Massachusetts and then if they decide they want to get a divorce, what's the biggest problem getting a divorce?
~ David Foster Wallace
Victory is the beautiful, bright-coloured flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. Yet even the military student, in his zeal to master the fascinating combinations of the actual conflict, often forgets the far more intricate complications of supply.
~ Winston S. Churchill
All I have bought myself is worse problems, no matter how good it felt to salve my pride.
~ Holly Black
How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?
~ Liane Moriarty
If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.
~ Unknown
That was one thing you could say for a life of complications: it made for good stories, though someone had always suffered for them.
~ Lionel Shriver
Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
you broke up two marriages, and faked a young woman's illness, and bribed her to get an abortion—all in the first chapter—
~ Jess Walter
Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
~ Vic Morrow
I think there are sometimes issues with - no matter where you put a conference, there's always going to be constraints on that. For example, sometimes students studying in the U.S. have trouble leaving the U.S. to go to a conference. So if you hold it outside the U.S. in a particular place, that sometimes creates complications.
~ Jeff Dean
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
~ Michael Ovitz
He doesn't want to step out of the present, this present. Because once he does, there will be college applications and college acceptances (just one will do) and the last of everything (last class, last party, last night, last day, last goodbye), and then the world will change forever and he will go to college and eventually become an adult. That is not what he wants. He does not want those complications, that change. Not now.
~ David Levithan
They were quite free to indulge in unlimited dreams and memories of women. Was that not why they felt no hesitation at paying more than for women awake? And the old men were confident in the knowledge that the girls put to sleep for them knew nothing of them. Nor did the old men know anything of the girls—not even what clothes they wore—to give clues of position and character. The reasons went beyond such simple matters as disquiet about later complications.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there are peculiar circumstances in the case, differences of temperament, divergent interests, innumerable complications of family life that excuse the apparent offence.
~ Honore de Balzac
Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
~ Colum McCann
I don't have relationships for a very long time. I'm famous so that gets in the way. They either really like the spotlight and having a trophy girlfriend or they will not really be crazy for it.
~ Amanda Lepore
Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.
~ Ryan Holmes
For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.
~ Unknown
But this dream was before I dropped out of school. My dreams became out of my reach for all sorts of complicated reasons that I prefer to not dwell
~ Unknown