Quotes About Complexity

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

The "Tax Complexity Lobby," as Forbes magazine called it, includes tax-preparation firms like H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt, as well as companies that make tax-preparation software

seventy-three thousand pages of IRS regulations, he laughed at the very suggestion.

to nic nie znaczy, do diab?a, w ko?cówce naszego wspania?ego XX wieku, wieku tyranii i rozpasanej demokracji, g?upkowatej ?wi?to?ci i genialnego ?ajdactwa, skapcania?ej sztuki i rozwydrzonej grafomanii.

Love tends to simplify the most complex and difficult of situations.

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Doing the right thing isn't always the right thing to do!

There's less in this than meets the eye.

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

Every foreign force that comes crashing in thinks it's intervening in a country, but it's actually taking sides in an ongoing contest among Afghans about what this country is.

in times of turmoil, people lose their taste for subtleties and their tolerance for ambiguity.

People are not just defined by their sexuality, their race, their gender, or their religion. These are just parts of who we are.

This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

Mental' isn't a reason. It comes in an awful lot of flavors, most of them are non-violent, and every single one of them has some kind of logic, whether or not it makes sense to you and me.

I didn't even try to explain to him what I was seeing, the fine spreading web through which we had all tugged one another to this place, the multiple innocences that make guilt.

Or maybe, and I like to hope it was this one, because the truth is more intricate and less attainable than I used to understand, a bright illusive place reached by twisting back roads as often as by straight avenues, and this was the closest I could come.

Ma and Mrs. Daly were on speaking terms, most of the time; women prefer to hate each other at close range, where you get more bang for your buck.

two of the human race's greatest myths: the possibility of permanence, and the simplicity of human nature.

It's taken me this long to start thinking about what luck can be, how smoothly and deliciously deceptive, how relentlessly twisted and knotted in on its own hidden places, and how lethal.

People are complicated. When you're a little kid, you don't realize, you think people are just one thing; but then you get older, and you realize it's not that simple. Chris wasn't that simple. He was cruel and he was kind. And he didn't like realizing that. It bothered him, that he wasn't just one thing. I think it made him feel . . .

Knocknaree wood was the real thing, and it was more intricate and more secretive than I had remembered. It had its own order, its own fierce battles and alliances. I was an intruder here, now, and I had a deep prickling sense that my presence had instantly been marked and that the wood was watching me, with an equivocal collected gaze, not yet accepting or rejecting; reserving judgement.

There is a side of me that is most intensely attracted to women who annoy me.

Selena said, "Maybe they did have. People are complicated. When you're a little kid, you don't realize, you think people are just one thing; but then you get older, and you realize it's not that simple. Chris wasn't that simple. He was cruel and he was kind. And he didn't like realizing that. It bothered him, that he wasn't just one thing. I think it made him feel . . .