Quotes About Complexity

A family is a mystery.

When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands.

These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.

India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow

we have reduced our politics to black and white today: either for or against, nothing in between. Fifty Shades of Grey could never be the title of a book about Indian politics. This view of

Hinduism is 'not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex, but subtly unified mass of spiritual thought and realization.

there is nothing restrictive or self-limiting about the Indian identity it reasserts: it is large, eclectic and flexible, containing multitudes. I

With the benefit of age and parenthood, I've started to appreciate the fact that my father, Officer Thomas Daley Sr., was a complex man who saw the world in black and white. I'm a simple man who sees the world in shades of gray. There was plenty of room for both of us. Time has made me more forgiving of his real and perceived shortcomings. For

You couldn't handle being me." She swirled her forefingers around her head and admitted, "All that goes on inside this head at any given time…would destroy you.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind "is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.

I mean, you have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind 'is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.' Do you believe this is true? And is it also true that you once said, 'The only time white people tell the truth is when they keep their mouths shut'?

my brain is a boardinghouse where my waking consciousness rents one room with a hot plate and a black-and-white TV while the rest of the rooms are occupied by a random assortment of banshees, ghosts, mimes wearing eagle feathers, and approximately twelve thousand strangers who look exactly like me.

Nothing as white as the white girl an Indian boy loves.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it's always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. what a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.