Quotes About Complexity

Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...

You want to own your own life," Eric said. "As much as anyone can." "Just when I think you're very simple, you say something complex," Eric said. "Are you complaining?" I tried to smile, failed. "No.

I think, us ladies, we are complicated creatures.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

Yes, I was a footballer, but there's more to me than meets the eye. I've got more levels. So many levels. I'm not going away - and I'm going to keep on talking until things start changing.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.

After 43 years of membership, exiting the E.U. was never going to be easy.

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles.

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

It was complicated in Italy - not just for the language, but also for the way I transmitted my messages and my ideas.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

I like the human mind and how messed up it is.

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.

Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.