Complicated Quotes - Page 10

• If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  House, Shadow, Would Be

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1400, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

  Nicholas Sparks

  "A Bend in the Road". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2001.

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• The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now." Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Queens, Two, Missing

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• I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

  Margaret Atwood

  Want, Heathcliff, Linton

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Taken, Long Ago, Storm

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.215, Vintage

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• The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

  Oliver Sacks

  Creating, Brain, Orchestra

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• you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Mean, Love Is

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• […] 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

  Believe, Simple, I Believe

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.324, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.

  Lauren Kate

  Kissing, Talking, Mouths

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.499, Delacorte Press

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• Hi, Tad!' she said. 'Hi, Jeff! Hey, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?' 'Uh, no,' I said. 'We were just...I mean, Tad was...uh, nope.' 'So what were you guys talking about?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's very complicated. We were discussing...umm...hats. You know, hats. Like, the head kind.' 'There's another kind?' Lindsey asked. 'Hey, Jeff?' Tad said. 'If your mom needs any evidence to prove that you're retarded, let me know. I'd be glad to record you talking to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mom, Mean, Talking

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2012). “After Ever After”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

  Richard Preston

  Life, Simple, Thinking

  "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story". Book by Richard Preston, www.dailymaverick.co.za. 1999.

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• You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Jobs, Mean

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• About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

  James Frey

  Fighting, Embrace, Minutes

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.507, Anchor

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• I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

  Miranda July

  Depressing, Way, Inventing

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

  Eileen Wilks

  Men, Attention, Creatures

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.60, Penguin

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• Love is so complicated, that is why it is love.

  Mike Gayle

  Love Is

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• I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

  Pat Conroy

  Lying, Silence, Trying

  Pat Conroy (2010). “South of Broad”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Dark, Light

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.197, Candlewick Press

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• Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

  Cameron Dokey

  Path, Firsts, Straightforward

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• I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Rushing, Space

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• I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dark, Simple

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• Politics is far more complicated than physics.

  Albert Einstein

  Politics, Physics, Politician

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• Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.

  John Corey Whaley

  Powerful, Way, Figures

  John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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