Best Complicated Quotes

Love isn’t complicated, people are.

Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship.

And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It’s much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It’s an ongoing process to turn the tide.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don’t care about anything except affection and food. They’re loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

I want to work on some more complicated baking… and it would be interactive!

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 thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he’s tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue…. It’s critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that…. because it affects America’s standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what’s happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what’s happening.

True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God’s Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.

It’s not just global warming, it’s not just a loss of biodiversity, it’s not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

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.

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.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn’t get a different person in an interview.

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.

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It’s a huge part of what’s important to me.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

I’m a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I’m more complicated than that. I use my work as a way to get all that other stuff out and experiment with feelings and ideas, and the forbidden. That’s just part of my process, I think, to identify something forbidden. That’s what lures me into wanting to do the work, write the story down.

You have to have a good script. You have to have compelling and complicated characters that you want to hang out with. Also, since you’re going to be living with your crew and cast, I think it’s really critical to create a great working environment, because we’re spending so many days, so many hours together.

A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that?s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you?ve still got it, that it?s still getting better.

I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how it is in a family, and how it is in Mexico, and gossip, and all this stuff. And I thought, well, why can’t a documentary be made about gossip? And in that way, I touch upon these other things – identity, cultural identity, and aesthetics.

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there’s really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It’s that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn’t have to be.

The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I’ve seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I’ve never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That’s amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that’s being taken apart.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it’s interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It’s the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

One of my problems with terrorism is that it’s self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that it works. When you go at it with a moral hammer, it’s really, really bad. It’s so bad you wouldn’t believe it because you don’t accomplish anything. I think the one thing terrorists themselves are vulnerable to is mockery. It’s an excellent weapon.

Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into a few simple commands … It is failure rather than success which is the distinguishing feature of corporate life.

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