Quotes About Complexity

One does not dislike the half of everything. You bore me, you young people, when you talk about one sex or the other, as if they were separate things. There is only one human entity and that is a man and a woman. The man is the silhouette, the woman is the detail. The one often spoils or makes the other. But apart they are so much material. Don't be a fool.

Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.

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He arrives carrying a forest, and you said he walks his cat on a leash, and he's the one assessing other people's mental health?

Clifford, I was just saying how there aren't good words for family, for step-half-siblings? How complex family is," Liliana said in her fragile voice. "That's true," Clifford said. "Complicated. Messy. Endless fun." He smiled slightly and looked around the room with an expression I liked-as if the world was enormously absurd, and he sort of enjoyed it and hated it at the same time.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.

They'll never forgive me, except they love me, so they will.

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?

Friendship is complicated, Maggie thought. Families are complicated. Love is complicated.

Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard

People are all purpose tokens, but you must remember each adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, integrates… in its unique way. It is difficult and unfair to use generalized laws.

Philosophy is one of the ways to use complicated sentences to explain simple concepts.

I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

I honestly cannot tell whether you are the most practical women I have ever met or the most deranged." "Why can't I be both

Give me dragons any day; I understand their ways far better than those of my fellow human beings. We make our world much too complicated

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side.

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.