Quotes About Complexity

At fifteen, it's still kind of tough to see that people can't be compressed into one color all the time. They shift and change, letter days or not, many layers of many colors.

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

He appreciated and represented the intricacies of life and showed an appreciation for complex and conflicting feelings. He wasn't naïve; he knew that seeing the best in ourselves so that we can see the best in our neighbor—an act that translates into harmonious relationships—is only possible because of forgiveness.

He appreciated and represented the intricacies of life and showed an appreciation for complex and conflicting feelings.

I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....

Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.

Like" is a mild sort of word for what Con and I have," Collin replied, leaning forward to touch noses with the big doofus. Constantine half-closed his eyes and twitched his whiskers back. "I"d go with the deeply twisted interpersonal relationship that a hero has for his nemesis, sort of a Batman/Joker thing, if the Joker suddenly started going down on Batman like a porn-star on Viagra." Jeff looked at him in alarm. "Jesus, Sparky, stop touching my cat!

Sex is complicated—you taught me that. Love is simple. It's where the two meet that shit becomes a tangled mess.

But there are as many different kinds of love as there are people in the world.

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.

Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.

All we know about economics is that we do not know something

Lorsque vous essayez d'appliquer la régionalisation avancée dans le tiers monde, c'est comme si vous essayiez d'avoir un enfant d'une femme sans se galocher

There are many versions of a story. Many sides and lenses that can distort, change, illuminate what is seen and unseen. What is heard and unheard. What is felt and unfelt. In the end, truth is but a facet of a diamond, a spark of ray from the sun, a forget-me-not flower seen from the eyes of a bee. What lives and breathes as reality is a perception, so who is to say what is possible and impossible?

But what had really happened, unfortunately, as ideal as it started out to be, was not that they had succeeded in becoming one, but that they had become neither.

Fue a partir de entonces, cuando yo fui MALA. Para todos, no. Para Tata Maria, Isabel, Jerónimo y Fabián, sólo un poco rara.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I both love and do not love; am mad and not mad.

I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?