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Quotes About Complex

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.
~ J. K. Rowling
I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
~ Frank Gorshin
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
~ Ann Beattie
Because he was filming a movie and not shooting a documentary, John had a more complex setup than usual, utilizing three thirty-five-millimeter cameras. Each one would film in staggered succession, so that the film magazine changes would never happen all at once. There would never be a time when film was not rolling. We couldn't very well ask a crocodile to wait while a fresh mag was loaded into a camera.
~ Terri Irwin
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
~ Terry Pratchett
Through his web of contacts in the highest levels of American business, with those corporate groups who form the bony structure of what is commonly called "the military-industrial complex, " Clifford was also absorbing another input: even the military-industrial complex was adamantly opposed to escalation.
~ Theodore H. White
I hold it to be impracticable"4 to try to define it or any right narrowly in a Bill of Rights.
~ Thom Hartmann
Simple church leaders are designers. They design opportunities for spiritual growth. Complex church leaders are programmers. They run ministry programs.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Q was naughty, you know? He's naughty. He's not evil. He's not all good. He's sort of bad. You get to play him the way you role out of bed in the morning.
~ John de Lancie
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.
~ Jodi Kantor
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
~ Teri Garr
I'm pretty neurotic.
~ Paul Wesley
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
~ Robert Kennedy, Jr.
I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.
~ Elisabeth Shue
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
~ Taiye Selasi
She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was so complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangelh erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I remember unloading guns beneath a complex heaven
~ Nicole Blackman
Large corporate advertisers on television will rarely sponsor programs that engage in serious criticisms of corporate activities, such as the problem of environmental degradation, the workings of the military-industrial complex, or corporate support of and benefits from Third World tyrannies.
~ Noam Chomsky
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. State censorship is not necessary, or even very efficient, in comparison to the ideological controls exercised by systems that are more complex and more decentralized.
~ Noam Chomsky
The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.
~ Noam Chomsky
He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.
~ Nora Roberts
Love was decidedly uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unwelcome.
~ Nora Roberts
En la historia edípica moderna, es la madre la que mata al padre y se lleva al hijo. Y uno no se puede divorciar de su madre. Ni matarla.
~ Chuck Palahniuk