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Quotes About Complication

She was not taking up that subject with Ted. Not when she'd spent part of the time fighting a fantasy about hitting the sheets and the other part thinking about strangling him with them.
~ HelenKay Dimon
In the end everyone, or not quite everyone, made friends again in order not to be stuffy or righteous. I did too. But I could never make friends again truly, neither in my heart nor in my head. When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst. But it was more complicated than that.
~ Hemingway Ernest
In Isabel's mind today there was nothing clear; there was a confusion of regrets, a complication of fears.
~ Henry James
There's always a time in a relationship when you can pull back. Three years ago when I realized I was falling for a guy with a complicated medical history, I decided not to exit. Believe me, I made the right decision.
~ Pam Shriver
What's wrong?
~ Steve Alten
Chapter the Eleventh: In Which the Plot, Behaving in Much the Manner Of a Soup to which Corn Starch Has been Added, Begins, at Last, to Thicken.
~ Steven Brust
Elisabeth, can't you imagine that you could love someone so terribly that just because of it you couldn't go to bed with him?
~ Milan Kundera
She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
~ Ann Brashares
On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.
~ Astra Taylor
Love makes everything complicated.
~ Elie Wiesel
Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me
~ Jonny Lang
Some of science is very simple. When it gets complicated, that's usually because the world is complicated—or because we're complicated. When we shy away from it because it seems too difficult (or because we've been taught so poorly), we surrender the ability to take charge of our future. We are disenfranchised. Our self-confidence erodes.
~ Carl Sagan
Fuck, I think. Just that. A multitude of various fucks all in one great big clusterfuck. As in: I am fucked if I want this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ newborn imbecile. And she is so fucked if I take her. And fuck if I'm going to walk away.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's not that simple." "Ah! That phrase is Male for 'I'm afraid to.
~ Karl Schroeder
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
~ Kate Beckinsale
Every social situation is fraught with ambiguity, knee-deep in complication, hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive-aggression and paranoid confusion.
~ Kate Fox
Sex, Emma thought. It curdled the mind and turned one into a drooling idiot. She had firsthand knowledge.
~ Kate Rothwell
But. There's always a "but" in life, isn't there?
~ Brian Morton
The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful.
~ Brian Selznick
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. To relax, as it were, in the womb of the desert sun.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.
~ Ilona Andrews