Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. Votes: 5
Ralph MarstonThe most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. Votes: 3
A. B. YehoshuaPolitics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. Votes: 3
Dwight D. EisenhowerWell, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that. Votes: 3
Tony ParkerYou don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. Votes: 3
Julia ChildIt's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form. Votes: 3
Prince AndrewI try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. Votes: 3
Nora EphronIn ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms. Votes: 2
George BalanchinePeople are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn't make them good people or bad people. Votes: 2
David ZayasPolitical parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical. Votes: 0
William KristolPolitics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated. Votes: 0
Jonas JonassonThings become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them. Votes: 0
Daniel Patrick MoynihanHuman relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated Votes: 0
James W. PennebakerGender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic. Votes: 0
Susan FaludiSibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet. Votes: 0
Maurice SaatchiFour simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours. Votes: 0
Jill Alexander EssbaumSimplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated. Votes: 0
Bradley B. DalinaIn football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreThe modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. Votes: 0
J. Michael BishopWe can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation. Votes: 0
Michael SkolnikReporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think. Votes: 0
John Jeremiah SullivanI believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. Votes: 0
Linus PaulingProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. Votes: 0
Maxim GorkyMorality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. Votes: 0
Robert BoltWe are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Forsythe HaileyLife is indeed terribly complicated"to a man who has lost his principles. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure. Votes: 0
Laurent BrancowitzThe key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at. Votes: 0
Gerald Jay SussmanLike most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light. Votes: 0
Kate DiCamilloA truly good movie is enjoyable too. Thereâs nothing complicated about it. Votes: 0
Akira KurosawaWe were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives. Votes: 0
Freeman ThomasI think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated. Votes: 0
Viola DavisLife isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated. Votes: 0
Alexandra PotterI like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge. Votes: 0
Jake PittsReality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. Votes: 0
Hideki YukawaOverhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterI don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. Votes: 0
Erin MorgensternShooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else. Votes: 0
Mark AddyBy using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantSometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be. Votes: 0
Stanley TucciYou know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated. Votes: 0
Tim WuMandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! Votes: 0
Harold H. GreeneBecause life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived. Votes: 0
A. Lee MartinezEverything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. Votes: 0
Nick HornbyGive thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. Votes: 0
Gregory SkovorodaWhy was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated? Votes: 0
Stewart O'NanSteve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy. Votes: 0
Ashton KutcherLeaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth Votes: 0
Gayle FormanThe most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudAny fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Votes: 0
Woody GuthrieAfter all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic? Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynStrange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel! Votes: 0
Erich Maria RemarqueThe trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated. Votes: 0
Matthew WaterhouseIt is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldI was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. Votes: 0
Jane SiberryI love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated. Votes: 0
Michael Marisi OrnsteinFrankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue. Votes: 0
Scott AdamsThe human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovLife is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself. Votes: 0
Harbhajan Singh YogiDivorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through. Votes: 0
Sharon StoneThe old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. Votes: 0
Ruth RendellIt is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortIndependent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women. Votes: 0
Anne HecheThe more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside. Votes: 0
Derrick de KerckhoveThe more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it. Votes: 0
William F. Buckley, Jr.I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple. Votes: 0
Sinead O'ConnorJournalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie. Votes: 0
Michael KinsleyMovies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. Votes: 0
Yahoo SeriousThe relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine. Votes: 0
Siri HustvedtComputers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. Votes: 0
Seth LloydPeople tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonMoney ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives. Votes: 0
Sarah Ban BreathnachChecklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks. Votes: 0
Scott D. AnthonyMy favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. Votes: 0
James PattersonWhen you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranHistory is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns. Votes: 0
Ted NelsonI do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones. Votes: 0
Matthew SpecktorYou're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves. Votes: 0
Toni OnleyGod made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEither, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderLife is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated. Votes: 0
Fred RogersCulture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. Votes: 0
Raymond WilliamsI was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated. Votes: 0
Eugene JarvisThe role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. Votes: 0
Criss JamiThey say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that. Votes: 0
Gardner DickinsonLife is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellLike life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenMental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Votes: 0
Elizabeth WurtzelThe reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose. Votes: 0
Barbara W. TuchmanThe reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose. Votes: 0
Barbara TuchmanReal wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge. Votes: 0
Jim RohnI really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated. Votes: 0
Richard M. NixonLove...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all Votes: 0
Immortal TechniqueThere's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated. Votes: 0
Edie FalcoMy old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinIn mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. Votes: 0
Thomas EakinsThe U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran. Votes: 0
Rebecca MacKinnonI think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. Votes: 0
Roger SpottiswoodePeople are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people. Votes: 0
David ZayasIt's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money. Votes: 0
Jojo MoyesMy life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave. Votes: 0
Kenny ChesneyAny ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal. Votes: 0
Meshell NdegeocelloHappiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not. Votes: 0
Paula McLainI have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one. Votes: 0
Rachel ZuckerCuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. Votes: 0
Alain DucasseFootball tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. Votes: 0
Jimmy GreavesI had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. Votes: 0
Jenny LawsonThe soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is. Votes: 0
Janusz KorczakIt's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion Votes: 0
Walt DisneyI don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make. Votes: 0
James PattersonEverything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. Votes: 0
Charlie KaufmanThe world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaIt's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated. Votes: 0
Viola DavisAs we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make. Votes: 0
Charles CummingI believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. Votes: 0
John IrvingIf the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it. Votes: 0
Sergio AragonesWar is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was. Votes: 0
Phil KlayAt least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. Votes: 0
Scott WesterfeldWhen you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated. Votes: 0
Clare BaldingAny ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.' Votes: 0
Meshell NdegeocelloAs we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotBeing a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures. Votes: 0
Ron TaffelThere's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. Votes: 0
Morgan FreemanIn analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. Votes: 0
Alexander KotovI refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaThe complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them. Votes: 0
Chogyam TrungpaThere is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection. Votes: 0
Andre GideBeing perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is. Votes: 0
Saskia de BrauwWhy is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said. Votes: 0
Phyllis Reynolds NaylorI'm not really a Facebook fan because I don't know how to use it! It's so complicated! Votes: 0
TeyanaI can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg. Votes: 0
Christine TeigenI tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government. Votes: 0
Joseph Gordon-LevittGolf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing. Votes: 0
Sam SneadI wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic. Votes: 0
Nick CarterWhen the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. Votes: 0
Maria Shriver"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud. Votes: 0
Lewis CarrollThe truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us. Votes: 0
Megan SmolenyakLove, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe. Votes: 0
Kay Redfield JamisonMarriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw. Votes: 0
Yvonne Strahovskii wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.. Votes: 0
Miranda JulyThere are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift. Votes: 0
Jill SteinYou have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part. Votes: 0
Joan DidionLanguage is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs. Votes: 0
Catherine OpieMaybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Votes: 0
Steven WeinbergIt's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. Votes: 0
Louis SimpsonComplexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple. Votes: 0
Richard BransonI don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance. Votes: 0
Kim WestonIt's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. Votes: 0
Daniel OkrentIt was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it. Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsI'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. Votes: 0
James BrownWhen you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative. Votes: 0
Dan ManganAre you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing. Votes: 0
Gwyneth PaltrowTenancy laws can be so complicated; I want to make sure OP is protected as much as possible. Votes: 0
Mallory Ortbergyou knew the truth | you knew the realty | still you did not stop |you made it complicated more Votes: 0
litymunshi.I realised that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoMan, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged. Votes: 0
J.R. WardDesign can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Votes: 0
Paul RandThere are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are. Votes: 0
Andrew TobiasIt is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role. Votes: 0
Anna FordEverything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Votes: 0
Wallace StevensEven the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first. Votes: 0
Cameron DokeyBeing gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve. Votes: 0
Patricia CornwellOnce you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. Votes: 0
Robert SheckleyRace cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated. Votes: 0
Tony StewartThe Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history. Votes: 0
Yukiya AmanoMoods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them. Votes: 0
Kay Redfield JamisonOne has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are. Votes: 0
Tony KushnerLove is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoHaving a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play. Votes: 0
Geena DavisHe never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated. Votes: 0
Susane ColasantiIn spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense. Votes: 3 Amit Kalantri
I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again. Votes: 1 Ryan Phillippe
If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged. Votes: 1 James O'Shaughnessy
Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision. Votes: 1 Meghan Daum
It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. Votes: 1 Marc Andreessen
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. Votes: 3 Melissa Gilbert
If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do. Votes: 3 Maurissa Tancharoen
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing. Votes: 3 Paul Theroux
What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright. Votes: 4 Brian Morton
God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief. Votes: 1 Victoria Osteen
Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy. Votes: 1 Ashton Kutcher
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Votes: 1 Dalai Lama
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. Votes: 1 Walter Rudolf Hess
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. Votes: 3 John von Neumann
I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things. Votes: 2 Noomi Rapace
It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure. Votes: 1 Laurent Brancowitz
It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated. Votes: 1 Christian Borle
I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do. Votes: 3 Charlotte Eriksson
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. Votes: 4 Ralph Marston
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women. Votes: 3 Twyla Tharp
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. Votes: 5 August Strindberg
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. Votes: 4 August Strindberg
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. Votes: 3 Joseph Conrad
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. Votes: 3 F. Scott Fitzgerald
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. Votes: 2 Richard Dawkins
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out. Votes: 3 Haruki Murakami
It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked. Votes: 1 Randy Wayne White
There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world. Votes: 4 Bill de Blasio
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures. Votes: 1 Ron Taffel
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. Votes: 4 John C. Maxwell
It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland. Votes: 1 James Nesbitt
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories. Votes: 1 Malcolm Gladwell
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make. Votes: 1 Charles Cumming
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. Votes: 3 Dean Koontz
Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is. Votes: 1 Saskia de Brauw
Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative. Votes: 1 Dave Gahan
Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet. Votes: 2 Maurice Saatchi