Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand. Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.

My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.

My music is not really complicated. It's not really complicated and it's not - I wouldn't say simple - but it's not too, like, looking forward. So actually, like, the sound I have now, maybe it's a little bit better than the one I had, or whatever, but I don't feel uncomfortable yet with my music, you know?

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act. We've also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying. The term "cultural-universal" is a complicated one, but I've heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

Outside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm, these market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur-co-ordinator, who directs production.

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.

People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.

Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.