Quotes of Intricate - somelinesforyou

“ The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ”

- Unknown

“ I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. ”

- Dido Armstrong

“ I'm a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. ”

- Rick Moranis

“ I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves. ”

- Mel Gibson

“ I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? ”

- Kristin Scott Thomas

“ The fight against terrorism is not over yet,... Through international cooperation, Japan will work hard... to prevent and eradicate terrorism. ”

- Junichiro Koizumi

“ It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right. ”

- Jeffrey Archer

“ There are a lot of sacrifices involved in running and it can certainly be difficult at times. ”

- John Mortimer

“ It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. ”

- Seneca

“ The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ The business schools reward difficult, complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. ”

- Warren Buffett

“ Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. ”

- Richard Dawkins

“ It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ”

- Pat Riley

“ Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action. ”

- Alice Childress

“ It was difficult to get winners because of the slow nature of the court, but I am happy to be in the final here again. The crowd really got behind me, they really get emotionally involved when I am playing. ”

- Roger Federer

“ It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason… ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ The fight against terrorism is a fight that is complex, difficult and that has to be played on several fronts. It is not just a military fight... for this action facing us, the French are united... We are all united. ”

- Jacques Chirac

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ As we live and as we are, Simplicity — with a capital 'S' — is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple… ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker… ”

- William Paley
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