Quotes About Complexity

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

This is needle-in-haystack shit. And the haystack is made of needles. On a needle planet.

You know,' Wraith muttered, 'life was a lot easier when we hated all humans and didn't give a shit what happened to the lot of them.' He laughed. 'Okay, I couldn't say that with a straight face. I still don't give a shit'.

All he had to do was simultaneously solve several multiple-variable equations, and hope he'd get it right.

Man is a chimera, a monstrosity composed of an indeterminable number of contradictions.

American actors, historical, familial, political, theatrical, move blindly ahead toward a future that never is, and never can be, clear.

Nothing works for everybody.

Unfortunately, the immune system is the system we know least about.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum

Even though there were too many feelings, it strikes me that having them all at once, all tangled together, is one of the most interesting things that's ever happened to me.

the simples answer was usually true, but simple didn't mean it wasn't also complicated.

La verdad es una joya de múltiples facetas

Por qué? ¿Acaso crees que los demonios no podemos sentir afecto? Somos seres racionales y experimentamos emociones complejas. Si los ángeles pueden matar, ¿por qué nosotrso no podemos amar?

Es lo que suele suceder con las personas y con los objetos más asombrosos -se dijo-. Nunca lo parecen a simple vista.

Por mucho que te esfuerces no vas a comprender las razones por las que una mujer hace tal o cual cosa. Porque las mujeres siempre tienen razones para hacer las cosas, razones que, aunque nosotros no les concedamos importancia, para ellas sí son importantes. Así que ante la duda, lo mejor es preguntar. Siempre. Y no darlo todo por sentado.

Mi padre era capaz de asumir con toda naturalidad las ideas más complejas y más novedosas, y al mismo tiempo quedarse extasiado con el vuelo de una mariposa. Mi padre amaba el mundo. Con todas sus consecuencias.

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, was growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee.

The relationship itself was a croquette, too much flour and milk patted smooth into something it wasn't.

A man holding a woman made of bad moods in his arms.

She was not a dog person. She was not a cat person, fish person, or horse person. On bad days, she was barely a people person. She ate meat, wore leather, and secretly coveted her mother's old mink.

Ella was a perfect study in contradictions, and I'd somehow contracted her like a beautiful disease.

My feelings for Liam couldn't be processed as a single thought. He'd become a symphony in my mind, composed of boundless crescendos that never reached a logical end.

And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.