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Quotes About Complication

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.
~ Marc Andreessen
Roman noticed that both women seemed instinctively opposed to the idea. "David's the logical choice," said Ulrike. Eric and Cliff protested, but Rikki overrode them. "It's less complicated.
~ Margaret Maron
I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in America than anywhere else in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
But somehow her satisfaction never lasted very long. She always found herself changing, pushing against the limits and ruining things for everyone around her. It's not always my fault, she said softly. Things just get complicated, sometimes.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
~ Laura Marling
Jenny Casey, you've skewered the pooch this time.
~ Elizabeth Bear
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
~ Arundhati Roy
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
~ Atul Gawande
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.
~ George Cukor
Sometimes the exacerbating factor is so acute that it can render the direct solution nearly useless—but solving the exacerbating factor is always inadequate in the absence of the direct solution.
~ Gary A. Haugen
My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
~ Graham Joyce
With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.
~ Arca
I'm a simple man who was brought up by a complicated man. So I have mannerisms and so on. Vocabulary. People can be misled.
~ Marilynne Robinson
A complicated situation appeared merely to be accumulating additional complicated factors.
~ Anthony Powell
CHAPTER XLVI IT CANNOT BE ARRANGED
~ Anthony Trollope
It is undoubtedly the case that things often become complicated which, from the greatness of their importance, should have been kept clear as running water
~ Anthony Trollope
Identity exists where the Complication and Unravelling are the same.
~ Aristotle
As I left the Dayaks I felt torn. They had been endlessly welcoming to me, but they were also openly admitting involvement in, and responsibility for, mass killing. It reinforced what I had found during the previous decade, when I had been investigating terrorism, arms smuggling and organised crime, which was that situations are rarely clear-cut, hardly ever black and white, and good people can do bad things, while bad people can definitely do good. Humans are just so damn complicated.
~ Simon Reeve
Cu cât un fapt este mai forÈ›at È™i mai grotesc, cu atât el merit? mai mult s? fie examinat cu toat? atenÈ›ia, È™i tocmai lucrul care pare s? complice problema, dac? este cercetat aÈ™a cum se cuvine È™i cânt?rit în mod È™tiinÈ›ific, poate fi cel mai în m?sur? s? o dezlege.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alex is still silent and glowering. Which I can understand. I've made his life a lot more complicated. People hate that.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.
~ M.O. Walsh
Love can fuck up desire, I'll agree to that," I said, and I believed that. If, on the occasions when someone I had sex with remained after orgasm, and an edge of friendship was being suggested to me—as, say, we might lie, though rarely, talking—if, then, at those times, all desire faded.
~ John Rechy
Se la gente non crede che la matematica è semplice, è solo perché non capisce quanto è complicata la vita.
~ John von Neumann