Complicated Quotes
1420 quotes by 1118 authors
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Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
— C.S. Lewis
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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the…
— W. P. Kinsella
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We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in…
— Matt Ridley
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Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing…
— Jeff Cooper
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Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their…
— Richard J. Foster
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
— Ralph Marston
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History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
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Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.
— Frederick Lewis Allen
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The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us…
— Naomi Novik
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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
— Karen Miller
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Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and…
— Donald Curtis
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Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world,…
— Jay Conrad Levinson
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Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
— Miuccia Prada
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When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
— Khalil Gibran
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Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.
— Tony Parker
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Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to…
— Arthur Keith
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are…
— Alija Izetbegovic
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Everybody knows how complicated this country's relationship with France has been, in war and in peace. Certainly there have been times when the leaders of…
— Kimberley Strassel
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To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a…
— Nancy Mairs
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Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on…
— Howard S. Becker
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