#complex

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#inferiority-complex #alcohol

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon! ↗

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

#arrogance #callousness #catholicism #cold-hearted-people #cruelty

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#complex #complex system #different #easier #everyone

Motivations are too tangled and complex. ↗

— Russell Banks

#motivations #tangled #too

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#became #complexity #critic #effort #had

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school. ↗

— Tom Udall

#became #call #complex #first #guess

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. ↗

— Ken Burns

#becomes #careful #complexity #composition #drama

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#charming #come #complex #exist #go

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#character #coming #complex #difficult #having

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

— Richard Dawkins

#difficult #explain #improbable #more #nature