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Quotes About Complications

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.
~ Sarah Dessen
Families," said Angel, with some feeling. "Can't live with them, can't have them killed without complications.
~ John Connolly
In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.
~ Gregory Maguire
I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
~ Clive Owen
We often get into work situations, social commitments, volunteer obligations, sports routines, and other types of activities that complicate our lives. We stay in them far longer than we need to because it looks good on paper, or because it sounds good when we have the opportunity to drop it into conversations, or because in some way it meets our own or someone else's expectations of the kinds of things we think we should be doing.
~ Elaine St. James
One bad thing can often be rectified or overlooked, but several of them can sometimes coalesce into a compound disaster that sprouts tentacles and develops a self-directed will of its own, the kind of thing my dear old dad used to call a cluster fudge bar.
~ Eleanor Druse
Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila's suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.
~ Elena Ferrante
Exfiltrations are like abortions," I said. "You don't need one unless something's gone wrong. If you need one, don't try to do it yourself. We can give you a nice, clean job.
~ Antonio J. Méndez
We ran into some bumps in the road at the University of Florida.
~ Urban Meyer
Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.
~ Mark Hyman
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.
~ Laura Jane Grace
On the other hand, he was also enjoying the ecstasy of an idea, not daring just yet to envision its complications, dangers, and vicious absurdities. For now, the idea was enough. It was indestructible. Transforming it into reality, well, that was something else altogether. For now, though, let's let him enjoy it.
~ Marcus Zusak
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
~ Paul Farmer
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
~ Joseph H. Greenberg
Why must every relationship I have be so damned impossible? (Ravyn) Hey now, defeatist talk from a catman like you? I'm the one who should be freaking out here. I mean, damn, you could give me fleas or something. (Susan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
~ Colum McCann
There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.
~ Stephen Wallem
Pasiones lentas y adulterios rápidos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
~ Author-Poet Aberjhani
Ledger is still in love with Abby," he said with a sigh. "I can't see any way that can have a happy ending." Just like his own situation, he though. "Boone, well, he's ornery enough that it will take a special woman to turn his head.
~ B.J. Daniels
If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
~ Ina May Gaskin
I'm the perfect girl. You read about me in Maxim or whatever. I tell dirty jokes like I'm one of the guys, and I'm sitting there in my panties and bra so you can see I'm a piece of ass in the bargain. Except I'm real, so I come with all kinds of complications.
~ Garth Ennis
As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.
~ Garth Nix