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Quotes About Complexity

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.
~ L.M. Montgomery
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I think a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.
~ L.M. Montgomery
İnsanlar gerçek düÅŸüncelerini dile getirseler bu dünya çok daha ilginç bir yer olurdu; gerçi zaten çok ilginç bir yer.
~ L.M. Montgomery
She is just a perfect angel, while I am only angelic in spots and demonic in other spots.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Pienso que una persona verdaderamente perfecta, sería algo muy poco interesante
~ L.M. Montgomery
In these ten minutes Rilla passed through a dizzying succession of anger, laughter, contempt, depression and inspiration. Oh, people were—funny! How little they understood.
~ L.M. Montgomery
İçimde birçok Anne var. Bazen, bu yüzden bu kadar sorunlu bir insan olduÄŸumu düÅŸünüyorum. Yaln?zca tek bir Anne olsa her ÅŸey çok daha rahat olurdu ama o zaman da hiç ilginç olmazd?.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Hiçbir kusuru olmayan yerleri de insanlar? da sevmem. Gerçekten mükemmel bir insan?n hiç ilginç olmayaca??n? düÅŸünüyorum.
~ L.M. Montgomery
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. One June evening, when
~ L.M. Montgomery
But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood.
~ Lacey Alexander
Ming can't figure out how Dagou has attracted the devotion of a woman like Katherine Corcoran. Too smart for him, too attractive, too accomplished, and too good. Too much of a good thing, and Dagou unable to avoid fucking it up.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
The smartest man alive can't learn much about a woman in two weeks.
~ Larry McMurtry
It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another's hair and singing tunes.
~ Larry McMurtry
It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.
~ Larry McMurtry
Men were odd. One day they were hard, far too hard; the next day they were soft, far too soft. They were like porcupines: prickly on the outside, but with soft bellies.
~ Larry McMurtry
We play your part in order to understand you, but you each seem to play a thousand parts. It makes things difficult for an honest, hard-working bug-eyed monster.
~ Larry Niven
Then you can go home to the puppeteer worlds and tell them that mucking with human breeding habits is a chancy business. Tell them that enough Teela Browns could make a hash of all the laws of probability. Even basic physics is nothing more than probability at the atomic level. Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
~ Larry Niven
Alas, he understood too well Sigmund's concept of interesting.
~ Larry Niven
Garbage is usually construed as useless complexity.
~ Larry Wall
Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us--the people we try to love. [Hannah Hall]
~ Laura Dave
Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us- the people we try to love.
~ Laura Dave
Besides, what is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? The truth is not a finite commodity that can be contained within identifiable borders. The truth is messy, riotous, overrunning everything. You can never know the whole truth of anything. And if you could, you would wish you didn't.
~ Laura Lippman
He was tired of everyone believing they knew everything there was to know about him, as if a person never grew, a person never changed, a person was born a weird and dreamy little kid with too-red lips and stayed that way forever just to keep things simple for everyone else.
~ Laura Ruby