Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

God, our world is so complicated.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.