Quotes About Complexity

This world is half the devil's and my own, / Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl / And curling round the bud that forks her eye.

One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women.

I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.

We get the right sort of man, but the wrong side of him...

But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.

It's not like I want to be friends with you now, Frankie. Don't even talk to me, I seriously can't deal with you. I'm just writing to say I underestimated you. I significantly underestimated you. I don't actually think it is possible to overestimate you. Although you are not a nice person.

But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don't feel like thinking.

You feel like you know me, Cady, but you only know the me who comes here," he says. "It's--it's just not the whole picture. You don't know my bedroom with the window onto the airshaft, my mom's curry, the guys from school, the way we celebrate holidays.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Since she could not unravel the tangle, she must take care not to re-enter it.

Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.

The American gambling industry has increasingly become more complex since Wolfshiem/Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919. In fact, Rothstein inspired future generations of Jewish mobsters that built an empire of crime.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

overload. Too much, too much, too much! Why were there so many alternatives? So many different outcomes to be considered?

That power of holding on to an image that Ruskin describes so admirably is not the power of the eidetic; it is that faculty of keeping a large number of relationships present in one's mind that distinguishes all mental achievement, be it that of the chess player, the composer, or the great artist.

Tenho todos os defeitos dos outros e, no entanto, tudo o que eles fazem parece-me inconcebível.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

No one confessed the Machine was out of hand. Year by year it was served with increased efficiency and decreased intelligence. The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbor, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole. Those master brains had perished.

Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her fertility for weakness. He supposed her "as clever as they make 'em," but no more, not realizing that she was penetrating to the depths of his soul, and approving of what she found there.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.