Quotes About Complexity

so many people are a little queer, aren't they?--in fact, most people are when you know them well.

Ah, but people don't run true to form in love affairs.

Marriage is an extraordinary thing—and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.

Ma come sapete, la natura umana è quella che è..

Do you know what I've been thinking, Tommy?" "It's impossible to say," replied her husband. "You think of so many things, and you think of them all at once.

What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest. " Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you can't get at what he means. Still, I like some Shakespeare.

Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.

people are capable of surprising one frightfully. One gets an idea of them into one's head, and sometimes it's absolutely wrong. Not always - but sometimes.

Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?

We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man.

Interrogo-me muitas vezes porque motivo tem o mundo uma tendência tão grande para generalizar. As generalizações raramente ou quase nunca são verdadeiras e são muitas vezes totalmente inexactas.

Why must it be simple?' ' Because it appears so complex. If it has necessarily to appear complex, it must be simple. You comprehend that?

You see," he said sadly, "you have no instincts." "It was intelligence you were requiring just now," I pointed out. "The two often go together," said Poirot enigmatically.

Ma non aveva mai tenuto conto della natura umana. Aveva sempre considerato le persone come casi da trattare e problemi da risolvere. Non aveva mai capito che ciascun essere umano era diverso, aveva le proprie idiosincrasie, avrebbe reagito diversamente. Già allora l'aveva ammonita a non aspettarsi troppo. Ma lei si era sempre aspettata troppo, anche se non voleva ammetterlo, e così era sempre rimasta delusa.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Oh, Lord," muttered Anthony, "what a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.

People are like that—not quite bad or quite good. I don't suppose I'm particularly straight myself—I have been because there hasn't been any temptation to be otherwise. But what I have got is plenty of courage and I'm loyal!

Quite nice-looking in a kind of way, but rather as though she might have what my mother used to call "a touch of the tar-brush.

La natura umana, mia cara, è sempre più o meno la stessa, ovunque. Solo che è più difficile osservarla da vicino in una grande città, tutto qui.

Do you not know, my friend, that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and aptitudes? Mais oui, c'est vrai. One makes one's little judgments—but nine times out of ten one is wrong.

The mind is, by far, the most complex tool ever created. The day we'll discover every minutia of its inner workings is the day we'll know everything there is to know about this universe.

The secret of life isn't an attempt to explain everything but, rather, to understand that certain things can't be explained. Demanding that everything is to be dissected neath a microscope is madness. Hence the attempt to explain everything is madness.

When Allah had made the rest of the world, He saw that there was a lot of rubbish left over, bits and pieces and things that did not fit anywhere else. He collected them all together and threw them down on to the earth. That was Afghanistan

When Allah had made the rest of the world, He saw that there was a lot of rubbish left over, bits and pieces and things that did not fit anywhere else. He collected them all together and threw them down on to the earth. That was Afghanistan,' the