Complication Quotes - Page 4

• The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Phrases, Want, Entitlement

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.60, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Aunt, Simple

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• We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

  Richelle Mead

  Views, Your Side, People

  Richelle Mead (2015). “Succubus Heat”, p.293, Zebra

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• Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Lasts, Norwegian Wood

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.5, Vintage

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

  Nora Roberts

  Worthwhile

  Nora Roberts (2012). “All the Possibilities: The MacGregors”, p.94, Penguin

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• from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only way to love, isn't it? this isn't a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. therefore i have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. and i say to my body: grow thinner still. and i say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. and i say to my heart: rave on.

  Mary Oliver

  Song, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 19, 2016

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• Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which you are addressing - and at the moment when the complications arise, challenging the logic of what you're doing.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Challenges, Firsts, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Ambition, Would Be

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• The weaknesses and biases of the international mechanisms of accountability make it seem desirable to extend the domain of accountability by empowering domestic courts to act as agents of the world legal system. Even if there is no consistent application of Universal Jurisdiction, it still leads those who might be prosecuted to alter their travel plans to avoid even the complication of waiting for a complaint to be dismissed.

  Richard A. Falk

  Waiting, Accountability, Empowering

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.

  Norman Maclean

  Mean, Long, Luck

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

  Joe Meno

  Sleep, Simple, Worry

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• The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  People, Taxation, Blame

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• Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.

  Robin Lim

  Native American, Risk, Suffering

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

  Robin Lim

  Pregnancy, Earth, Birth

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma's voice], "Red wine is good for my heart. That's what my doctor said." And we'd say, "Yeah, but not for breakfast." Unfortunately, it was the thing that killed her. I felt inspired to write a song about her and what that meant for her life and for all of us. I was writing it in Michael's house.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Song, Grandma, Heart

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

  Goldie Hawn

  Keys, People, Honor

  Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.200, Penguin

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• I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

  Clive Owen

  Father, Believe, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year due to similar and often manageable complications. They die because they don't have access to critical maternity care that could easily save their lives.

  Christy Turlington

  Girl, Daughter, Years

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• I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Cycle Of Life, Worry, Achievement

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• I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, Light, Perfect

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• I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.

  Keri Russell

  Children, Smart, Teenager

  Source: deadline.com

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• We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Simple, Yield

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• He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

  Albert Camus

  War, Drama, Commitment

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.37, Vintage

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• My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we the people are capable of doing. The complication in that simple narrative is that as I got older, the Vietnam War shook my confidence in how our democracy was working. I ended up serving in that war, but it started with a lie, and I was very proud of my father for being one of its earliest opponents.

  Al Gore

  Father, War, Lying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are always going to be some complications.

  Barack Obama

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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