Complex Quotes
1613 quotes by 1299 authors
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You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're…
— Ilona Andrews
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We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by…
— Emma Donoghue
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I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret…
— Jim Butcher
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It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you…
— John Green
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The simple and most complex answer is love.
— Nora Roberts
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He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had…
— Maya Angelou
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I think life's too complex to be an accident.
— Alexandra Adornetto
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As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the…
— Sam Harris
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The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
— Albert Einstein
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If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the…
— James Dashner
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They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a…
— John Ajvide Lindqvist
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because…
— Alain de Botton
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I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set…
— Alan Moore
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Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Preston smirked. “You’re gonna have to stop calling me things like ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful.’ I’m gonna get a complex. Why can’t I be ‘sexy,’ or…
— Abbi Glines
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Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of…
— Terence McKenna
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All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.
— Augusten Burroughs
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If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works?…
— Richard Dawkins
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