Complex Quotes

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I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live. — Cassandra Clare
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that… — Chuck Klosterman
Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex. — Christine Feehan
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught… — David Sheff
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and… — Timothy Leary
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the… — Leo Tolstoy
I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I… — Anne Lamott
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would… — Charles Darwin
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter;… — Salman Rushdie
But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion… — Lisa Genova
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.… — Terry Pratchett
The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,… — Victor Hugo
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North… — David Nicholls
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably… — Mary Balogh
Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is… — Paulo Coelho
Loving is a laborious and complex business. — Mahbod Seraji
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;… — Lynne Truss
Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond… — Tom Robbins

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