Quotes About Complex

When you hire Harry D'Amour, things have a tendency to become … complicated.

I don't pretend to understand the American mind," spat Goldberg. "They often do things that make no sense to me.

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited

For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the suppliant humble and devoted.

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!

When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past. I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.

Everybody loves a villain.

There are many other beings that you will discover in the Gnostic Galaxy if you choose to delve more deeply into Gnosticism. For instance, there is Barbelo, who speaks of Herself in the Trimorphic Protennoia. While She appears in certain Gnostic texts such as The Three Steles of Seth and the above Trimorphic Protennoia, Barbelo is a very complex being, often portrayed as androgynous.

Simplicity is a complex concept, but at the core is voluntary limitation of our outer wealth so that we can have greater inner wealth.

Physics is geometric proof on steroids.

Accusing us of being a gimmick is a bit like accusing Jesus Christ of having 'a bit of a messiah complex'. True, maybe, but when faced with the undeniable genius of what we put out, does that really still matter?

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

The For Dummies title refers to the humility required in approaching Tolkien's complex myth, not to the level of insight herein.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

The author is not only the one who signs but also a completely unknown person blended with (legendary,] mythical, complex, variable consanguinity.

In physics—or wherever natural processes seem unpredictable—apparent randomness may be noise or may arise from deeply complex dynamics.

The child's experience of the mother is internalized as a complex; an emotionally charged cluster of energy beyond the control of the ego.

As in Joyce's life and art, so in Shaw's: the revolt of the son is never the cliché-rebellion against a tyrannical parent, but the more complex revolt against the refusal or inability of an ineffectual father to provide any lead at all.

Because an interferential effect takes place between the two graphite gloves, a complex of frequencies was created in the body that included each frequency by itself as well as the sum of the two frequencies and their difference.

But I do believe there are people in our midst who wish to make a graveyard of the world, and their motivation may be no more complex than that of an angry child flinging scat because he was left with regularity in a dirty diaper.

motivation may be no more complex than that of an angry child flinging scat because he was left with regularity in a dirty diaper.

its major respects the national party is a holding company for complex and interlacing clusters of local groups

Purple is such a twisted, complex color—it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too—fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.

things with me and Lucas are…complicated