Quotes about Complicated
It never ceased to amaze me how white scholars could quibble, making simple things more complicated than they really were. What is more central in the Christian Bible than the exodus and Jesus stories and the prophetic call for justice for the poor?
— James H. Cone
The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of a livelihood by a formula more complicated than the problem itself. To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.
— Henry David Thoreau
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
— CS Lewis
This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don't let it get complicated. Gray it ain't. It's black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now." He nodded back over his shoulder. "Thanks to you…" He lifted my hand and stared at the center knuckle. The cut had spread open. "… those boys in there are reconsidering their choice.
— Charles Martin
Love that makes everything complicated. While hate simplifies everything. Hatred puts accents on things and beings, and on what separates them. Love erases accents.
— Elie Wiesel
I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.
— Paulo Coelho
Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]
— Graham Greene
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
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Our pleasures, which were those of being in love, were as simple and still as mysterious and complicated as a simple mathematical formula that can mean happiness of can mean the end of the world.
— Ernest Hemingway
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower