Quotes about Complexity
I want ordinary corrupt human love
— Graham Greene
She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.
— Graham Greene
She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal
— Graham Greene
in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.
— Graham Greene
Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.
— Graham Greene
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
— Audre Lorde
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
— Robert Brault
I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.
— LM Montgomery
Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.
— LM Montgomery
Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.
— LM Montgomery
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
— Herman Melville