Quotes About Complexity

I am what you see. A woman. Flawed. Imperfect. You can't label me. I'm not any one thing. I'm many things and not all of them are good. The only certainty is that I love you.

And wasn't it amazing that an imperfection could make a perfect thing even more perfect?

Her sadness was an ecstasy, a guilt, an assignation.

Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

Sometimes doing things was easier than talking about things. Doing revealed less; talking exposed more, including the parts that could get hurt.

I ignored the bit about him being hard to love, which described everyone, ever. Hard to love was a pretty good definition of humanity in general.

Carlos Monsiváis expresaba en voz alta lo que todos los ciudadanos nos preguntábamos: "¿Pero qué es México? ¿una catástrofe a corto, mediano y largo plazo?".

There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside" -Hanna

We don't always love our friends every minute.

We are the worst of ourselves and also the best. They can try and shock it out of us but it doesn't really go away, not entirely. And that's pl. It made me feel great to realize that. It made me feel almost whole again

Under the glitzy, glamorous surface of the simplest popcorn flick, there were often hidden depths of meaning.

There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside.

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

The bonds between a family are strange indeed.

You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt.

Their lives were and are consumed with the generally dreadful business of being Russian.

The Christian community first came up with theological abstractions because eventually we had to speak in shorthand about the complexity of God's story and character, or we'd never get anywhere in regular discourse with one another.

It seems the more we try to fix the world, the more we break it.

can't decide if it's pretty or creepy, which, come to think of it, is about the same way I feel about you.

Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.