Complexitude Quotes & Sayings

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! — Martha Beck

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories. — Helen Hollick

Whoever sees the light shall never walk in darkness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think." These people believe that bin Laden is being targeted not because of the World Trade Center and Washington; they are not convinced by the evidence that has been produced. They believe he's being targeted because he tells the truth. — Robert Fisk

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that. — Billy Bob Thornton

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon

I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude of money and slum, this profane steam-powered god. I turn and walk into the city my home, not bird or garuda, not miserable crossbreed.
I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man. — China Mieville

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals. — Paul Shaffer

They ascribe omnipotence and omniscience to him and I don't know what else; it seems to me so strange that they never credit him with common-sense or allow him tolerance. If he knew as much about human nature as I do he'd know how weak men are and how little control they have over their passions, he'd know how full of fear they are and how pitiful, he'd know how much goodness there is even in the worst and how much wickedness in the best. If he's capable of feeling he must be capable of remorse, and when he considers what a hash he's made in the creation of human kind can he feel anything but that? The wonder is that he does not make use of his omnipotence to annihilate himself. Perhaps that's just what he has done. — W. Somerset Maugham

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. — Douglas Coupland

Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile. — Kealan Patrick Burke

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused. — Laozi

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us ... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly ... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you? ... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while ... — Kurt Vonnegut