Top 100 Quotes About Complicated Things
#1. Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.
Cherie Priest
#2. A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.
Arj Barker
#3. It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
Edie Falco
#4. Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
Ines De La Fressange
#5. Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything.
Fawn Weaver
#6. [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.
Bonnie Bassler
#8. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9
Peter Ross Range
#9. People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere
Elizabeth Taylor-Wey
#10. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.
Lisa Unger
#11. Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
#12. Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
Milan Kundera
#13. One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
Tony Kushner
#14. When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
Wallace Shawn
#15. 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.
Richard Hammond
#16. Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
David Halberstam
#17. Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money.
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.
Tad Williams
#19. Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.
C. W. Ceram
#20. To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work. If you don't cultivate this ability, you're likely to fall behind as technology advances. The
Cal Newport
#21. All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
Joel Sternfeld
#22. Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.
Tony Stewart
#23. Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion, very pious and superior, and submit to persecution and the will of the Lord.
H.G.Wells
#24. We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.
Billy Sheehan
#25. The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous.
And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
The Doctor
#26. People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.
Mary Baker Eddy
#27. Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.
Aaron Tveit
#28. The most complicated and scary things in life are really about something a lot more simple.
Lara Zielin
#29. My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#30. [ ... ] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#32. Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.
Lauren Barnholdt
#33. It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.
Penelope Cruz
#34. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.
Cora Carmack
#35. Things that appear to be complicated - and that in fact are complicated - are very simple where motives are concerned. Motive is the root of desire, so to speak. The important thing is to seek out the root. Dig beneath the complicated surface of reality
Haruki Murakami
#36. learned that life is as simple or as complicated as you make it. I had chosen to simplify my life to include only the best things: my family, friends, and the mountains.
Jeff Alt
#37. I dig the toe of my shoe into the dirt. "It's complicated."
"Is it? Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can't even see how easy it really is.
Emery Lord
#38. He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated.
Susane Colasanti
#39. As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.
Dennis C. Blair
#40. I did hate those people ... those false artists whose work consists of the poses they strike: saying outrageous things, cultivating complicated tastes and appetites, being artificial, irritating, unbearable. People who, in fact, take from art only what is false and external ...
Mario De Sa-Carneiro
#41. Glorious cocked an ear back at her. 'Things act according to their natures,' he said. 'But sometimes our natures are complicated.
T. Kingfisher
#42. I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.
Haruki Murakami
#43. Sometimes things weren't all that complicated. We just make them complicated in order to hide from them. "I'm
Odette Beane
#44. I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.
Nick Saban
#45. Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.
Russell James
#46. The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.
Aleksandar Hemon
#47. Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#48. I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
Donald Judd
#49. Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.
Gregory Skovoroda
#50. But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.
Marjane Satrapi
#51. I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.
Matt McGorry
#52. Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.
Heidi Baker
#53. Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs. Or if the guy doesn't say anything when you walk out with a new top and the guy has no idea why you're mad at him. So of course, women are complicated.
Malin Akerman
#54. Smiling and breathing. These are simple things. Exercising and serving. These are simple things. Being grateful and gracious. These are simple things. Acting with humility. Acting with courage. These are simple things. Some people try to make this business of living too complicated,
Eric Greitens
#55. Live comedy is fantastic. It's when live comedy is transcribed and reported and critiqued outside of the venue without context that things become complicated.
Michael Che
#56. You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.
Henry B. Eyring
#58. But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.
Richard Matheson
#59. Wisdom simplifies the things; stupidity makes the things complicated!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
Sergei Bubka
#61. Evil is simple. It's a child's explanation for why people do bad things. The truth is always more complicated and worth pursuing.
Mindy Mejia
#62. Beauty is as beauty is. It is no more complicated than that. The moment you try to understand some things is the moment you break the spell.
Stuart Ayris
#63. Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship.
Yury Olesha
#64. I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does:
Make things simpler
We don't need poems to make things more complicated
We have each other for that
We need poems to remind ourselves of the things that really matter
Colleen Hoover
#65. A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
#66. It's so easy to make things complicated in business.
David Green
#67. When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.
Anna Sofia Botkin
#68. My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.
Wilbur Ross
#69. I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.
Richard M. Nixon
#70. But it was not so complicated really. Such things rarely are. It was a simple case of stars aligning; those that didn't being nudged into place.
Kate Morton
#71. Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.
Richard Branson
#72. The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.
Marjane Satrapi
#73. You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you're trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.
Angelo Dirks
#74. I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.
Mark Morris
#75. I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
Moby
#76. I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.
Phil Klay
#77. Things can be very complicated; make them simple in your mind and they will be simple in real life as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.
Aleksandar Hemon
#79. What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
Klaus Nomi
#80. So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.
Lauren Myracle
#81. Life's not fair. Life's often complicated, leaving us to deal with things that we shouldn't have to. Life can make you smile one day, only to leave you broken into tiny little pieces the next.
Lisa De Jong
#82. Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.
Nina Bawden
#83. What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.
Jean Cocteau
#84. One of the most important things I've learned in life is that complicated isn't always bad. Sometimes complicated is just complex.
S.L. Scott
#85. Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!
Joyce Meyer
#86. The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.
George M. Whitesides
#87. Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.
Steven Weinberg
#88. We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.
Richard Dawkins
#89. We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
Richard Dawkins
#90. I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.
Hans Zimmer
#92. She had never cared for social things, as society was just a complicated collection of individually annoying people, and she didn't like most people to begin with,
Larry Correia
#93. If you find things complicated, it means you haven't understood them. Simplicity is the basis of everything.
Carlos Ghosn
#94. 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.
Edwidge Danticat
#95. Please don't. When you think about things, Sophronia, they only get more complicated. This thing between us could be so very easy, if you let it.
Gail Carriger
#96. Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves.
Juliet Marillier
#97. It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
David Levithan
#98. Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#99. Sometimes things are more complicated than they seem. Sometimes what you see isn't so black and white.
Victoria H. Smith
#100. In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Ben Bova
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