Top 100 Quotes About Is Complicated
#2. A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
Rick Bass
#3. We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.
Alice Dreger
#4. History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond
#5. Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
Kirk Douglas
#6. Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.
Adrian Tan
#8. Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.
Martin Schulz
#9. We're led to believe love is complicated. It's not the love that's complicated. It's all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you're smart, you'll realize this before it's too late and simplify.
Alison G. Bailey
#10. It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#11. A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe.
Kato Lomb
#12. It's virtually an axiom that teamwork across divisions of a ministry or police force is complicated by rivalries, turf battles, and competing personal and institutional interests.
Moises Naim
#13. War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
Phil Klay
#14. Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#15. I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.
Kathleen Hanna
#16. Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics.
Tom Robbins
#17. It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.
Guillaume Musso
#18. The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor
#19. The world is complicated,' she added. 'You don't have to have one emotion at a time.
Will Schwalbe
#20. In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#21. Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#22. To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.
Bruno Munari
#23. Life is complicated until complications don't grace it amid amenable aura.
Akshmala Sharma
#24. I've always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone, the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated. Life is complicated.
Kim Holden
#25. It's quite hard. Making pies, I mean. You wouldn't think it, but there's quite a lot to the process. Bread is easy. Soup is easy. Pudding is easy. But pie is complicated. It's something you never realize until you try it for yourself.
Patrick Rothfuss
#26. Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.
Chelsea Cain
#28. Life is complicated, love isn't. If you need to think about it for one half second, you're not in love.
J.R. Moehringer
#29. Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
Barbara Boxer
#30. The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
Gary Miller
#31. I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.
Kathleen Hanna
#32. Mike's eyes narrowed shrewdly. "Don't kid yourself, Bella. The guy's head over heels for you." "I know," I sighed. "Life is complicated." "And girls are cruel," Mike said under his breath.
Stephenie Meyer
#33. Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.
A. Lee Martinez
#34. Want me to warm up the sauce?"
"Do we do that? I mean, it's in a jar, right? Can't you just dump it over the pasta?"
"Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up."
"Oh." Eve sighed. "This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.
Rachel Caine
#35. The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.
Alex Weinle
#36. I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.
John Darnielle
#37. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good dea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comps out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended." 86
Tom Robbins
#38. I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.
Steve Wozniak
#41. The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Jasmine Guy
#42. Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.
Fredrik Backman
#43. I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.
Philip Schultz
#44. My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.
Kim Holden
#45. Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.
Geoff Downes
#46. Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason.
Debasish Mridha
#47. ...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly.
Hank Green
#49. If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.
Sergio Aragones
#50. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative hidden in every positive. Life is complicated,
Amish Tripathi
#51. Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
Richard Holbrooke
#52. One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.
Ellen Stofan
#53. Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish
#54. I'm not the casual sex type."
"Yeah, I gathered that. Why? Bored?"
"I wish." Josh gave a short laugh and shook his head. "No, sex with me is complicated.
Aleksandr Voinov
#55. Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
Nicole Beharie
#56. Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short.
If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can do is try to forgive them.
Brian K. Vaughan
#57. Life is never simple or without challenges. If it is, it will not last long. So stop worrying that because your life is complicated you're doing something wrong. Enjoy the lessons in life, and the chaos they bring. It means you're alive!
Shane E. Bryan
#58. Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.
Martin O'Malley
#59. Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
Dean Koontz
#61. We confuse what is complex (raising a child, finding more meaning in our lives) with what is complicated (sending astronauts to the moon, doing our taxes). Confusing the two, leads us to complicated solutions for things that are actually complex instead.
Patti Digh
#62. As Chris Hedges, the philosopher and journalist, wrote, In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its confusion.
Ryan Holiday
#63. Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.
Hideki Yukawa
#64. This is complicated," you said, back on the napkin, and then looked at me. You wanted to pry me open, I could see it, drag me across our boundaries so we could feast together in secret from the rest of the world. "But," you said, "no, not but. I love you.
Daniel Handler
#65. Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty.
Alice Hoffman
#66. Sometimes dying can be as simple as living is complicated.
Benny Lindelauf
#67. Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.
Seth Godin
#68. A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
Zadie Smith
#69. The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.
Marty Rubin
#70. Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
Lena Olin
#71. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events
Adrienne Rich
#72. Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.
Clayton Christensen
#73. Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.
Rebecca Stead
#74. Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
Sivananda Saraswati
#75. We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Andrew Young
#76. You're easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.
Amy Engel
#77. The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess.
John Green
#78. Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
Bob Parsons
#79. 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
#80. A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.
Carroll Quigley
#81. People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it's the stuff we CAN understand. It's cats that are complicated.
John Horton Conway
#82. I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
Lee Daniels
#83. 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.
Frank Stella
#84. One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.
Frederick Wiseman
#85. 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
#86. What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Paul Valery
#87. The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion ... one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
Emil Cioran
#88. Sometimes the question is complicated and the answers simple." - DR. SEUSS
James Lilliefors
#89. At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.
Scott Weiss
#90. Life is complicated, but not uninteresting
Jerzy Neyman
#91. Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
Robert Fripp
#92. In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
Rachel Sklar
#93. The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.
Michael Pollan
#94. Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
Eric Liu
#95. See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.
John Green
#96. The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.
Frederick Lenz
#97. The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy
David Baldacci
#98. Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.
M O Walsh
#99. Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!
Moby
#100. The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.
Elizabeth Borton De Trevino