Complicated Quotes - Page 35

• The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Different, Texture, Tissues

  Werner Heisenberg (1962). “Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science”, Harpercollins College Div

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• To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

  Francis Collins

  Hands, Knives, Littles

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• Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

  Coco Chanel

  Travel, Journey, People

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• As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Heart, Simple

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.102

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

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Money, Passionate, Our Lives

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2011). “Peace and Plenty: Finding your path to financial security”, p.68, Random House

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• A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning, and the story she tells is as complicated as life itself. This is a richly satisfying novel.

  Margot Livesey

  Girl, Witty, Teenage

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Childhood, Adults

  MARGARET MEAD (1930). “GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA”

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• If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

  Agnes Repplier

  Church, Sides, Demand

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

  Rebecca West

  Art, War, Simple

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

  Lauren Bacall

  Friendship, World, Uncommon

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• The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

  Freya Stark

  People, Arabia, Levels

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Country, Children, Simple

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• Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

  Alan Watts

  Cutting, Years, Bangs

  "The Nature of Consciousness". Book by Alan Watts, 1960.

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• If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Crazy, Matter, Facts

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.

  Joy Browne

  Sex, Simple, Psychology

  Joy Browne (2011). “Dating For Dummies”, p.260, John Wiley & Sons

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• Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?

  Pamala Oslie

  Love, Technology, Perfect

  Pamala Oslie (2010). “Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras”, p.3, New World Library

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• Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

  Anat R. Admati

  Banking, Banking System

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• Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

  Jean Craighead George

  Cat, Self, Firsts

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• Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.

  Cathy Lamb

  Jobs, Husband, Hands

  Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.96, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Evil, Perfect

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• 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

  Children, Reality, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Vigor, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.242

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• A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Real, Actresses, Incredibles

  "Maggie Gyllenhaal: At 37 I was 'too old' for role opposite 55-year-old man" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

  Lauren Cohan

  Hurt, Ends, Fine

  "Lauren Cohan of 'The Walking Dead' Admits 'Guts in Your Hair Really Is No Fun'". Interview with Jennifer Hirshlag, www.elle.com. October 13, 2013.

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