Quotes About Complication

Well, you really made a mess of things,' he says. 'I'm not even done,' I tell him.

Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.

What a mess you've made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

The theory lies in the complexity of the cases.

lawyers and soldiers came out of the same expensive box. If you couldn't settle things without them, you weren't going to like what it cost to settle things with them.

Are we really going to have to do this the hard way?" Farkas sighed. "Going forward, may I suggest that designation be restricted only to operations that include arming our self-destruct mechanism while inside an alien vessel?" Commander Roach asked.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

I'm sorry I got you involved in this

Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.

So much for fearing a shy, paralyzed virgin; she might be innocent, but Eliza had pressed against him and kissed him back until he completely forgot that he was pursuing her because of her father's manipulations. That thought cooled his blood somewhat. Edward Cross wanted him to court and marry his daughter, didn't he? Hugh smiled grimly. Cross was about to get exactly what he wanted. And so was he. Not only Cross's money, but Eliza herself.

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Worrying about me won't help you get your job done. Who says I'm worried? He stayed where he was; simply held out his hand. She crossed to him, took it, gripped hard. When I met you, she said carefully, I didn't want you in my life. You were one big complication. Every time I looked at you, or heard your voice, or so much as thought about you, the complication got bigger. And now? Now? You are my life. She gave his hand one last squeeze, then released. Okay, enough mushy stuff. Olympus.

What's the problem?

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

The letters TSS that I once read in the fine print buried on the bottom of tampon boxes soon came to define me. TSS - Toxic Shock Syndrome: a potentially fatal complication of certain types of bacterial infections.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.

The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already.

How had she gotten herself into this mess? Sex. A good-looking intense man with black, hungry eyes, and she fell like a lovesick calf. Sex. It ruined many otherwise sane women. I can read your thoughts.

Being friends with the enemy certainly complicates matters." - Dannyl

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.