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Quotes About Complications

There is always another breath in my breath, another thought in my thought, another possession in what I possess, a thousand things and a thousand beings implicated in my complications: every true thought is an aggression.
~ Gilles Deleuze
There's nothing wrong in love. It happens. It doesn't much matter who with. We get caught up, we get kidnapped by mistake.
~ Graham Greene
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
~ Nancy Gibbs
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
~ Sherman Alexie
Virtually all these "good" reforms failed and mired us in all manner of unintended consequences.
~ Shelby Steele
People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.
~ Johnny Galecki
From the complications of loving you I think there is no end or return. No answer, no coming out of it. Which is the only way to love, isn't it? This isn't a play ground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. Therefore I have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. And I say to my body: grow thinner still. And I say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. And I say to my heart: rave on.
~ Mary Oliver
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.
~ Matt Ridley
Books know no limits or borders, they create longings and unexpected passions, they pose more questions than answers. They represent the unruly world, filled with contradictions and complications, a world that threatens the totalitarian mindset by being beyond its control.
~ Azar Nafisi
They come from a long line of defiant heroines, including Elizabeth Bennet, Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre. These women create the main complications of the plot, through their refusal to comply. They are more complicated than the later, more obviously revolutionary, heroines of the twentieth century, because they make no claims to be radical.
~ Azar Nafisi
I hope you don't mind me asking, Your Majesty," I said, "but how do you keep up with twelve wives?" "Very badly," he said, shaking his head wearily. "One of them is always jealous of the others. It's more complicated than Middle East politics.
~ Barack Obama
los pacientes de hospital que mueren por una causa que no fue la que los llevó allí: malos diagnósticos (resultado del descuido, el orgullo o los prejuicios), errores de medicación (basados, con demasiada frecuencia, en la mala caligrafía), complicaciones técnicas (examinar una radiografía al revés, por ejemplo), e infecciones bacterianas (el problema más mortífero y más generalizado).
~ Steven D. Levitt
For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.
~ Jacob Braude
Women who may choose to have silicone breast implants are entitled to independent research to ensure they have complete and comprehensive information. It's especially important since so many women have experienced complications with their implants they never knew were possible.
~ Gene Green
Victor Hugo could not promise without keeping his word. He was not like me: I promise everything with the firm intention of keeping my promises, and two hours after I have forgotten all about them. If any one reminds me of what I have promised, I tear my hair, and to make up for my forgetfulness I say anything, I buy presents -- in fact, I complicate my life with useless worries. It has always been thus, and always will be so.
~ bernhardt sarah iii
Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.
~ Harlan Coben
To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.
~ Michelle Huneven, Blame
You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.
~ Luanne Rice
Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.
~ Haruki Murakami
If I could go back to my girlhood and its freedom, I would. But that's never possible: life pushes us forward, into more complications than we ever imagined as children.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Whenever things seemed to be ticking along like clockwork, somewhere under the surface there were always gears slipping.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Nobody comes back from a serious injury and is the same after a month or even three months. You should play in the reserves; you get your muscle back and regain your match rhythm. Psychologically, you need to build your confidence back up and you hope there are no complications. Even in a settled side, it's hard.
~ Diego Forlan