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Quotes About Complexes

I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.
~ Taylor Momsen
I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.
~ Taylor Momsen
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
One mitochondrion contains tens of thousands of copies of each respiratory complex. A single cell contains hundreds or thousands of mitochondria. Your 40 trillion cells contain at least a quadrillion mitochondria, with a combined convoluted surface area of about 14,000 square metres; about four football fields. Their job is to pump protons, and together they pump more than 1021 of them – nearly as many as there are stars in the known universe – every second.
~ Nick Lane
Dostoevski's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity—all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of sinning their way to Jesus or, as a Russian author Ivan Bunin put it more bluntly, spilling Jesus all over the place.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
zoegirl: ohhhhh. i thought it was that only a few people like bunnies and trees, but everybody likes executive housing complexes. mad maddie: look at you, quoting the bunny! nice!
~ Lauren Myracle
It is said that 70,000 veils separate the human being from Perfect Freedom. These veils are not evil, below us or filthy. They are complexes that need to be dissolved, beliefs that need changing and doorways to existential core issues. God has said, 'There are seventy thousand veils between you and Me, but there are no veils between Me and you.' This is why we so greatly stress the importance of the Murid involving him or her self in some kind of psychological and body work.
~ Laurence Galian
The thing about all complexes, splinter personalities, and fractal assignments is that they have no imagination. The can only replay the old events, scripts, and moribund outcome of their origin. But we do have an imagination, the power to image something new, or at least alternative.
~ James Hollis
Was a particular person a "saint" because she sacrificed her own journey in service to others; was her life as lived in fact her authentic journey, or was she driven by complexes so powerful as to render her incapable of choosing anything else?
~ James Hollis
The new myth will not come from above. Only totalitarian ideologies, or ego-crafted appeals to our complexes, will appear in such fashion.
~ James Hollis
Generally speaking, people are drawn toward intimate relationships either because they are opposites who will compensate each other, or because they are complementary, which means that not only their conscious likes and dislikes line up, but their complexes as well.
~ James Hollis
was her life as lived in fact her authentic journey, or was she driven by complexes so powerful as to render her incapable of choosing anything else?
~ James Hollis
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter believing that his chances of surviving a combination of instinct, complexes, reflexes, glands, sex, and present-day traffic conditions are about equal to those of a one-legged man trying to get out of a labyrinth.
~ James Thurber
The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I love airports because funny things always happen at them. They're giant complexes full of urgency, seriousness, and confusion. Where am I supposed to be? Which way do I go? And that's just the staff.
~ Rhys Darby
Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species.
~ Jean-Marie Lehn
Finally, let it be said that to surrender oneself to the will of others (as often happens with lovers and mystics) and so find oneself at last rid of selfish pleasures, interests, and personal complexes, is in no wise a joyless act, nor one lacking in grandeur.
~ Pauline Réage
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
~ Jean Tinguely
I suppose there will be the time when I'll need to consider moving into one of those assisted-living complexes. At my age it's difficult to make significant changes, but then that's life.
~ Debbie Macomber
Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.
~ Kovai Sarala
Why should a young child not begin to understand that you can face a small amount of discomfort in order to stay faithful to an idea? And in any case who said that young people should not have complexes? Complexes arise through a natural attrition with the reality that surrounds us, and when you have complexes you try to overcome them. Life is in fact nothing but this triumphing over one's own complexes, without which the formation of a character and personality does not happen.
~ Italo Calvino
But for many people, a huge part of the energy goes into the struggle with complexes, fear, worries, anxiety, and the energy cannot be used to achieve goals and dreams
~ Sunday Adelaja
I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.
~ Mary Renault