Quotes About Complexity

This was love. It didn't come free, you paid in pain. Your own. But then nobody ever said love was easy. Well, they did, but they were idiots.

Boxes within boxes, dolls within dolls, worlds within worlds. Everything was connected. Everything in the whole world.

One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn't like about Julia was her independence.

The Germans were victims of the Nazis too, but one can't say that too loudly, of course.

You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?)

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.