Quotes About Complexity

We've built a world too complicated and dangerous for our quarrelsome natures to manage. In such hopelessness, the general vote will be for the supernatural. It's dusk in the second Age of Reason. We were wonderful, but now we are doomed.

Only two sexes. I was disappointed. If human bodies, minds, fates are so complex, if we are free like no other mammal, why limit the range?

She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

The infinite variety of the human condition precludes arbitrary definition.

It was once convenient to think biblically, to believe we're surrounded for our benefit by edible automata on land and sea. Now it turns out that even fish can feel pain. This is the growing complication of the modern condition, the expanding circle of moral sympathy.

How could anyone presume to know the world through the eyes of an insect? Not everything had a cause, and pretending otherwise was an interference in the workings of the world that was futile, and could even lead to grief. Some things were simply so.

We've built a world too complicated and dangerous for our quarrelsome natures to manage.

Podía hablar de los bosques en invierno, y del siniestro muro de un castillo. ¿Pero cómo hablar de sentimientos?

Ogni persona è, tra le altre cose, un oggetto facile da rompere e difficile da riparare.

I was pure and good. I loved it that they couldn't understand how profound I was.

Love stories like Jane Austen's used to conclude chastely with preparations for a wedding. Now their climax lay on the far side of carnal knowledge, where all of complexity waited.

beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the other hand, has infinite variation.

No one exclaims at the moment of one's dazzling coming-out, It's a person! Instead: It's a girl, It's a boy. Pink or blue. Only two sexes. I was disappointed. If human bodies, minds, fates are so complex, if we are free like no other mammal, why limit the range? I seethed, and then, like everyone else, I settled down and made the best of my inheritance. For sure, complexity would come upon me in time.

Se consideraban demasiado complejos para creer en el destino, pero les seguía pareciendo una paradoja que un encuentro tan trascendental hubiera sido fortuito, tan dependiente de cien sucesos y elecciones nimios. Qué posibilidad tan aterradora que pudiera no haberse producido nunca.

What is wrong with you? Many, many things.

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

For me hotness was a complicated matter involving brains, humor, and some other things, but all that aside, I was willing to admit Sean Evans was nice to look at.

And your skin is like honey. I wonder how you taste. Bitter and tired. Mhm.

Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you. She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. Like a cancer? Like a favorite vice.

Julie looked like she was about to cry and waved her arms. Whatever. Look, I'm not stupid. I know things! Adult things. - Like what? Like sex. I know about sex. I just stared at her. I wasn't opening that can of worms.

Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!

I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.