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Quotes About Complexity

People love to make life harder than it has to be.
~ Miranda July
The longer I stood there, the longer I had to stand there. It was intricate and exponential. I looked like I was doing nothing, but really I was as busy as a physicist or a politician. I was strategizing my next move. That my next move was always not to move didn't make it any easier.
~ Miranda July
Multidisciplinary is just us applying a fractured mentality onto something that's actually whole.
~ Miranda July
That's the problem with men my age, I'm somehow older than them.
~ Miranda July
C'était quelqu'un de complexe, avec de nombreuses strates d'émotions qui remontaient à la surface, certaines spirituelles, certaines torturées de manière plus séculière, et il brûlait d'amour pour moi.
~ Miranda July
Azi ÅŸtiu c? a fi matur, a fi om întreg, nu înseamn? altceva decât a înÅ£elege c? eÅŸti r?u, fundamental ÅŸi dincolo de orice altceva.
~ Unknown
I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.
~ Miriam Toews
But there is a kindness here, a complicated kindness. You can see it sometimes in the eyes of people when they look at you and don't know what to say.
~ Miriam Toews
Mutno je sve to u nama, draga moja dobra Beatrice, nevjerojatno mutno.
~ Miroslav Krleža
Eu não compreendo o amor — disse Holmes com tristeza. — Nunca aleguei compreender.
~ Mitch Cullin
Are women really wonderful things? Maybe they are. Yes, women are wonderful things, but when all is said and done, they aren't really "things
~ Mo Yan
Los grandes canallas tienen algo de héroes y los grandes héroes tienen algo de canallas.
~ Mo Yan
La belleza de la literatura reside en los malentendidos.
~ Mo Yan
One cell in its unspeakable complexity would be worth the worship and awe of the entire universe. And cells were everywhere, their miraculous ness diminished only by their ubiquity.
~ Moby
The key is this: When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.
~ Moisés Naím
La clave es esta: cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar. El
~ Moisés Naím
el proceso de apertura política y profundización de la democracia ni es lineal ni es universal. Siempre habrá excepciones y contraejemplos.
~ Moisés Naím
cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.
~ Moisés Naím
La clave es esta: cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.
~ Moisés Naím
Lo que quiero decir no es que la coacción ya no sea posible —basta recordar las masacres en Siria—, sino que se ha vuelto más cara y más difícil de sostener a largo plazo.
~ Moisés Naím
La conversación es ahora, por necesidad, entre muchos más actores.
~ Moisés Naím
los cambios que han hecho que el poder sea más fácil de obtener, más complicado de usar y más difícil de conservar.
~ Moisés Naím
Trissottani: ma lo scemo ignorante è uno scemo più puro. Clitandro: lo scemo intellettuale è uno scemo due volte.
~ Moliere
We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial services are often jarring in this regard: friends and relatives eulogize the deceased in such conflicting terms they might be talking of different people.
~ Molly Haskell