Complex Quotes

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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and… — Pat Conroy
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is… — Victor Hugo
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways… — Stephen Jay Gould
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste… — Walter Kaufmann
Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car. — Christopher Moore
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big… — Alfred Hitchcock
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. — Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. — Oscar Wilde
No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all… — Lorrie Moore
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that… — Voltaire
I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything. — John Derbyshire
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to… — Charles de Lint
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles… — Jasper Fforde
Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The… — M. Scott Peck
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do… — Oscar Wilde
The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS -… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. — Harvey Pekar
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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