Quotes About Complexity

It is quite obvious that you do not understand me, and in all probability, you never will.

You can't give your love over entirely when you are still in love with another.

Essa mulher que a cada amor proclama A miséria e a grandeza de quem ama E guarda a marca dos meus dentes nela. Essa mulher é um mundo! – uma cadela Talvez... – mas na moldura de uma cama Nunca mulher nenhuma foi tão bela!

You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

You can't do people's thinkin' and feelin' for dem, Rose. Some folks you ain't neber gonna figure out—you just got to accept them where they be. Dere ain't no way to get inside a person's head and figure out what makes them be the way they be. You just got to accept them.

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection—complex

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Whatever arouses us, or fails to, comes from dark, uncontrollable places in ourselves, and rarely fits who we would conscious like to be.

Lo amaba, de verdad lo amaba. Pero sólo hasta cierto punto. Más allá de ese punto, había algo opaco en mí que no cedía. Podía ver la opacidad. Podía palparla y saborearla.

Sabism is a dualism and a polyvalent sign of ambivalence, bipolarity and synthesis.

in view of the extreme complexity of the phenomena of social life it is always possible to select any number of examples or separate data to prove any proposition),

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

The expression "Red Man" was used to describe the Indian by the white traders. It came from the fact that some of the Indian tribes painted themselves with red oxide. Actually, the color of Indian skin varies from very light yellow or olive color, to very dark brown. Their eyes vary in color from black, brown, or hazel to gray or even blue; their hair from straight, coarse black to soft brown. Some Indians are tall and straight with high cheek bones, while others are short, round, and squat.

Humans are so much more complex than dogs, with such a broad range of feelings—though there were many times I missed the Yard, for the most part I was now living a far richer life, even though I often didn't know what was going on.

life was far more complicated than it had appeared to be in the Yard and that it was people who were in charge of it, not dogs.

FALLACY I—The first fallacy of Communism is its attempt to over-simplify history.

The most important figures needed for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.