Complex Quotes
1613 quotes by 1299 authors
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The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
— Baroness Orczy
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I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of…
— Sloane Crosley
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My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
— Rajneesh
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Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
— Frank Zappa
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Charles Darwin
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I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.
— Steven Wright
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The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a…
— Michael Cunningham
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...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be…
— Aldous Huxley
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I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is…
— Philip Pullman
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Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of…
— John Steinbeck
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Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The…
— Vaclav Havel
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh…
— Bell Hooks
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I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are…
— Bernhard Schlink
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Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
— David Brin
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Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger…
— Ian Fleming
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Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit…
— J R Ward
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You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by…
— Vaclav Havel
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Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me…
— Toni Morrison
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