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. 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

#3. Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. 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

#5. Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

Gregory Skovoroda

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.

Jean Cocteau

#14. We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Souls are complicated things.

Mark Helprin

#16. A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Edward Hirsch

#18. The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

Neil Diamond

#19. That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

Kathryn Stockett

#20. What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

#21. Books - all books - are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

Andrew Rilstone

#22. Richard Dawkins would be the first to agree: "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose."1

J. Warner Wallace

#23. I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

Noomi Rapace

#24. In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Thomas Eakins

#25. There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

Vannevar Bush

#26. I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

Heidi Klum

#27. I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

David Levithan

#28. The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

Gerald Jay Sussman

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

John Barth

#30. There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

E.B. White

#31. Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Richard Dawkins

#32. Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Seth Lloyd

#33. The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.

Lois Duncan

#34. They wanted to adore me and I complicated things by inserting myself into their experience of me. I

Glennon Doyle Melton

#35. I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#36. The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.

Ingrid Weir

#37. A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.

Arj Barker

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. [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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Tony Kushner

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

David Halberstam

#48. 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,

#49. 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

#50. Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

C. W. Ceram

#51. 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

#52. Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Tony Stewart

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

Aaron Tveit

#57. The most complicated and scary things in life are really about something a lot more simple.

Lara Zielin

#58. 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

#59. [ ... ] 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

#60. Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#61. Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

Lauren Barnholdt

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

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

Susane Colasanti

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. Glorious cocked an ear back at her. 'Things act according to their natures,' he said. 'But sometimes our natures are complicated.

T. Kingfisher

#70. 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

#71. Sometimes things weren't all that complicated. We just make them complicated in order to hide from them. "I'm

Odette Beane

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.

Heidi Baker

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. Boys always make things more complicated.

Katrina Abbott

#83. But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.

Richard Matheson

#84. Wisdom simplifies the things; stupidity makes the things complicated!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#85. The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

Sergei Bubka

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. It's so easy to make things complicated in business.

David Green

#92. When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#93. 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

#94. I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

Richard M. Nixon

#95. 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

#96. Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Richard Branson

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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