Complicated Quotes
It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.
I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.
Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.
The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.
We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.
I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.
Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.
As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.
Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.
In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.
That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.
Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.
You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.
Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.
Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.
What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.