Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally empathetic, or that's what they accomplish. The fact that they can cross all those cultural cliques and boundaries really amplifies that, to me.

And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.

Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

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.

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

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

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