Quotes About Complexity

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.

Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters … and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.

She could feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue was a taste like honey and anise and cream, like mother's milk and Drogo's seed, like red meat and hot blood and molten gold. It was all the tastes she had ever known, and none of them… and then the glass was empty.

More details, more devils.

Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

Sex is sharing, you see, and it's good to share with everyone. But the sharing has to be real and meaningful. That creates problems.

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

A grey man," she said. "Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?" "What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.

the longer he lived ,the more tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.

Sometimes he thinks of me as a child he must protect, and sometimes as a woman he would like to bed, but does he ever truly see me as his queen?

Much that may seem evil can be good.

As the next thousand years unfold—and the thousands beyond that—many more will be born, and live, and die. And history will continue to unfold, as strange and complex and compelling as what my humble pen was able to lay before you

madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.

What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion.

He had long ago given up trying even to understand the unsolvable mathematics of human relationships, let alone to participate.

I don't know you. I can't know you. You don't even know yourself, see? And me, do you know me? No. Even less. You know what I tell you, and I tell you the truth, but maybe not all. And you read my feelings, my surface feelings—the pain of a stubbed toe, a quick flash of annoyance, the pleasure I get when you're in me. Does that mean you know me? What of my levels, and levels? What about the things I don't even know myself? Do you know them? How, Robb, how?

She's warm and smart and funny and she can kiss a man or slit his throat.

the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.

Was there ever a man as beautiful or as vile as this one?

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but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.