Complex Quotes - page 9

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. (Charles C. Mann)
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel. View quote
Candice Millard
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy. View quote
Dave Winfield
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex. View quote
David James Duncan
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification. View quote
Dalia Mogahed
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them? View quote
Devdutt Pattanaik
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. View quote
Diane Wakoski
We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive. View quote
Dimitar Sasselov
The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services. (Donna Shalala)
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality. View quote
Ellen Pompeo
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. View quote
Elyn Saks
The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics. View quote
Emanuel Celler
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. View quote
Galen Rowell
I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people. View quote
Garret Dillahunt
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. View quote
Hamlin Garland
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. View quote
Harold Evans
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. (James Q. Wilson)
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage? View quote
Jason Isaacs
I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person. View quote
Jiah Khan
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. View quote
Jock Sturges
A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. View quote
John B. Keane