I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happines, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.
Life isn't as complicated as it seems. There's a solution for every problem you have. Seek and you will find them!
So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated,” I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge. “I choose you.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.
I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you’re trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.
If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.
I used to think that people are were supposed to be more strange, and dirty, and full of all sorts of emotions, pity and nobility, with infinite layers of complications.
Si scoprì a ricordare una carezza leggera e naturale, uno sguardo complice e rapito, un contatto tenero e fugace consumato in uno spazio angusto e scomodo. Una vasca. Lei, come non sarebbe mai più stata.
