Complicated Quotes - Page 15

• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

  David Levithan

  Simple, True Things

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

  Nora Roberts

  Simple, Arms, Littles

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Perfect Hope: Number 3 in series”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

  David Nicholls

  Pride, Two Sides, Issues

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• They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pyramids, Pyramid Schemes, Church

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Thinking, Like You, Popularity

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.130, Penguin

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• Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand. Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Why Not, Want, Kind

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• Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

  David Levithan

  Confusing, Would Be, Togetherness

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• It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

  David Levithan

  Race, Focus, Inability

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.77, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

  Lawrence Durrell

  Thinking, Life Is, Imagine

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• Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Simple, Secret, Important

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• Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Miracle, Survival

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.315, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.

  Billy Connolly

  Love You, Thinking, Simply You

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• You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

  Rob Bell

  Religious, Jesus, Names

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• Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Able, Taught

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.165, Penguin

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• She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Country, Growing Up, Father

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• He's complicated and complex, a labyrinth I want to lose myself in. He's my fighter, and I really want to fight to be with him.

  Katy Evans

  Fighting, Labyrinth, Want

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• Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

  Patricia Briggs

  Vampire, Looks, Manners

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

  Ron Carlson

  Heart, Tolerance, Stories

  Ron Carlson (2007). “Ron Carlson Writes a Story”, Graywolf Press

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• Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.

  Allen Lacy

  People, Healthy, Gardening

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• And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

  Mark Levin

  People, Toilets, Return

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

  Gayle Forman

  People, Leaving, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 13, 2014

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• To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.

  Ilchi Lee

  Eye, Mind, Needs

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Oct 17, 2015

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• I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Grief, Grieving

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• I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

  Prince Charles

  Inspirational, Thinking, Environmental

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• Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

  Martha Stewart

  Motivational, Success, Business

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