Quotes About Complexity

and you will find that the larger, starker, and more painful difficulty is the still abundant uncertainty that exists over what should be done in many situations.

There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives.

There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

KURT. Then he does love you! ALICE. Probably. But that doesn't stop him from hating me. KURT

LAURA. Yes! It's strange, but I've never been able to look at a man without feeling I'm his superior. CAPTAIN

I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I'm not used to normal. I'm used to disaster. I don't know, as messed up as he is, he's also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I'm accustomed to working for love.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

I am tired from having lived seventeen different lives, compressed into the space of one.

Bookman isn't a stable man. He has a lot of problems that run very, very deep. But he was really good at giving head.

At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory

I think you're healthy in certain ways, and I think you're a pathetic disaster in others.

Was it a universal truth that the closer you looked at something, the more you would see but the less you would understand what you where looking at?

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

There is a complexity to life that I often overlook. There is a depth of thinking, there is a richness. I am skating on the surface.

Oh my God, I think. I envy people who are so easygoing, but I also don't understand them at all.

Not the random, seemingly drunken hand of Mother Nature herself. That crazy old bitch gave us the California Redwoods - true, but right along with it she whipped up some naked mole rat.

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I'm not the Gail Wynand you'd heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you'd want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that's the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you'd want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn't be easy for you.

You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you'd want to be broken, trampled, dominated, because that's the impossible, the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you'd want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn't be easy for you.

The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.

special omelette, so large and complicated that it really should have been considered a full-scale omel

We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything. —ANTON CHEKHOV

It was to be in essence crueler than revenge: it would have meant the destruction of that which we cannot comprehend.

Siempre es más fácil confesar un hecho, que demostrar que no se ha cometido. En este caso particular, la presencia de un cifrado hubiera sido una cosa sencilla; en cambio, su ausencia debía provocar complicaciones [...]. Ocurre que para aclarar todo esto hay que hacer uso de unas explicaciones verdaderas pero muy complicadas