Complex Quotes

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A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex… — Bruce Sterling
I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep. — Karen Cushman
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly… — David Foster Wallace
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it. — Homer Hickam
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in… — A. Lee Martinez
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had… — Jennifer Egan
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. — Gary Snyder
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to… — Simon Pegg
Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass… — Simon Pegg
She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which… — Gail Carriger
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not… — H P Lovecraft
See you just donâ€™t understand women the way I do J.D. They want it all: a career apple martinis financial independence great shoes but at… — Julie James
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. — Bill Mollison
I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with… — Neil Gaiman
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. — Oscar Wilde
Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex… — Edward Said
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and… — Barbara Kingsolver
This story is the ultimate example of Americanâ€™s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis.… — Matt Taibbi
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery.… — Veronica Roth
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. — Neil Gaiman

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