Quotes About Complexity

Thoughts were too fast for words and too complex. There was too much to say, more than anyone could ever say in a lifetime about even the simplest things.

There can be much more to a decision than you can know at this stage of your life.

Girls think strangely

woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single facet defines the jewel.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

There are more colors in the crayon box than black and white, hotshot," she countered. "Everyone's got their own agenda, and I do mean everyone. And it's rarely the one they let you see. But

Following the path of science trained me to separate, to distinguish perception from physical reality, to atomize complexity into its smallest components, to honor the chain of evidence and logic, to discern one thing from another, to savor the pleasure of precision.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

There's a lot more to you than meets the eye." "There's more to everyone than meets the eye," Clay said. "I hope you'll forgive me—

I'm simple when you want me to be complicated. And I'm complicated when you want me to be simple.

It's not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one.

She's such a lovely woman, he'd tell me time and time again. I'd nod, because my mom is such a lovely woman. And charming and smart. Can't argue with any of that. She's also a fucking wack job.

Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who understand that the world isn't made up of happy endings, but messy, complicated, and untidy ones.

But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

Wir sehr sie doch dem Mond ähnelte - sie reflektierte jederzeit müdelos das Strahlen, mit dem andere ihr begegneten, doch dahinter verbarg sich eine dunkle Seite, die immer im Schatten lag.

Mary wondered when law got so complicated that even the lawyers needed lawyers.

She had lived long enough to learn that families didn't dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were tripping over the bodies.

there's other things

I used to think mothers-in-law are difficult the world over, but on that day I came to understand that they're simply unknowable.

All women are mysteries." "Only men think that," said Pearl. "Largely because they're not paying attention.

Arguments are almost never about the thing they're about.

Life's not so simple. People are many things, each of them true.

Why did the act of simplifying your life seem so complicated and require so much effort? Why was there never any time to do it?