Quotes About Complications

More money will often not solve the problem. In fact, it may compound the problem.

Incompetents invariably made trouble for people other than themselves.

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.

Love messes you up and makes you do strange things

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

It makes for a complicated relationship, but what's life without a few well-chosen complications? Dull, that's what.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

Affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Extenuating Circumstances

Jung called the Shadow 'the seat of creativity'. Embracing the Shadow means opening yourself up to possibilities, letting go of fixed certainties about the Self and the world. It means engaging with complications and conflicts, which are necessary aspects of all creative work.

The average ego, the average individual, remains fixed in the group, although in the course of development he is compelled to give up the original security of the unconscious, to evolve a conscious system, and to take upon himself all the complications and sufferings which such development entails.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

And I'd add that every good thing has its disadvantages, and the disadvantage of love is precisely that it leaves room for nothing else, not even the prudence of ferrets.

One of the keys to good pacing is to alternate your plot complications with rewards. Like a pendulum that swings on an arc, let your character relax, if only briefly, between disasters.

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

He was well aware that he hadn't told Polworth the whole truth about his relationship with Robin Ellacott, which, after all, was nobody else's business. The truth was that his feelings contained nuances and complications that he preferred not to examine. For instance, he had a tendency, when alone, bored, or low-spirited, to want to hear her voice.

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

He liked women; love was an indispensable enjoyment. But nobody was worth involving oneself in tiresome complications for, nothing was worh messing up one's life for. With the women who hadn't been sensible and had taken love too seriously, John Bidlake had been ruthlessly cruel. It was the battle of 'All for love' against 'anything for his quiet life.' John Bidlake always won. Fighting for his quiet life, he drew the line at no sort of frightfulness.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.