Complicate Quotations

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

On some aspects of this question, our opinions coincide, but there are many complicated issues which still remain to be worked out together, ... Our opinion (is) that all sides should refrain from any action which would further complicate the situation and further complicate the work that we are trying to carry out together.

Short-sighted actions of this sort are clearly ineffective and serve only to complicate problems in our relations rather than trying to solve them.

significantly complicate our ability to ensure availability of critical military GPS services in a time of crisis, and at the same time assure that adversary forces are denied similar capabilities.

He's going to call the play, and you're going to run it, ... He's just plain to the point. He's not going to complicate things. There's no more adjustments to what the defense is doing. We're going to run what we're going to run.

Referring it to the Security Council might complicate the issue. That might make some of the parties more tough on this issue. That is our concern.

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

Kenny and I, and I'm very glad we did this, decided that if we were going to work together we weren't going to complicate it by letting management push us into putting out a new record,

I think it does complicate the rate hike picture and the near-term interest rate outlook.

Tyco would appear to be pursuing the 'path of least resistance. Tyco's Bermuda incorporation could significantly complicate any prospective IPO or divestiture process because of tax implications.

We anticipate that he'll be back, ... But if it gets to be a situation where he wants to dictate terms of his returning, then that will complicate this. He's got a year left on his contract. We anticipate that he'll be back to coach.

We have an anticipated debt of $400 billion this year, and that's before the first dollar in whatever military action may be required will be expended, ... Without a question, this will exacerbate the debt and complicate our fiscal circumstances beyond anything, I would say, in history.

We can say this trend is being driven by foreigners and that higher rates in the United States will complicate the short-term outlook.

We didn't want to complicate Friday with this announcement. This was a very difficult decision. It was very difficult on Dan, who gave of himself totally here. He tried very, very hard. The results haven't materialized yet and I just wanted my own person.

we are concerned that it could complicate the arrangements that are now under way concerning the release of the remaining detainees.

We would hope very much that there would not be any unilateral action that will complicate matters here.

We oppose impulsively using sanctions or threats of sanctions to solve problems. This will complicate problems.

We don't advise travel at all ... especially with the strong winds, ... In relative terms, it's going to be a fairly powdery snow, so the strong winds are going to complicate the drifting.

We don't advise travel at all ... especially with the strong winds. In relative terms, it's going to be a fairly powdery snow, so the strong winds are going to complicate the drifting.

We are also very interested in her ideas on immigration and her concept of possible employer sanctions. The Arizona Chamber is supporting measures to help small businesses comply with confusing federal immigration rules. We are opposed to new state-level sanctions that would further complicate the bewildering mess of current immigration laws.

At their very best, the inspectors can complicate and restrain and slow down Iraq's clandestine efforts, and give us a better picture of what is going on in Iraq than we have to today, ... They cannot compel Iraqi compliance and therefore not put an end to the WMD threat posed by Iraq.

While we continue to believe that a long-term, durable settlement is the only way to resolve this dispute, Canada's actions complicate our attempts to reach a negotiated solution,

It would be a problem that would complicate the issue without changing the result.

We want a solution but to refer it might complicate the issue. This is our concern.

Now, Katrina is a bellwether issue for a lot of people. And it means it's going to complicate his relationship with some of these ministers and their parishioners.

Our concern is that referring them might complicate the issue.

Our concern is that to refer it to the council might complicate the issue. I think this might make the positions of some parties more tough on this issue.

Everybody is entitled to play this game. We accept it for what it is, but it does complicate some of the things we're doing.

Do not complicate simplicity, so simplify to avoid complexity. Think and have less to save your sanity.

I just wanted to get a good shot off. I didn't want to complicate it.

Because no appointments need to be made until the end of this semester, not having a database now does not hurt anyone or complicate anything. So I don't feel bad about holding onto the database until these larger questions about the role of Student Council are answered.

These offspring have what we have called 'occult' genetic disease -- their genetic make-up is perfectly normal, but they still have the physical problems of their parents. This phenomenon could complicate the hunt for disease genes.

The Chinese government, in handling such complicated international disputes, opposes the arbitrary use of sanctions or the threat of use of sanctions in the efforts to solve the question. It will only complicate the issue.

The changes to Resolution 493-05, which were made before the fall 2005 general election, have provisions that will unnecessarily complicate the process, with little or no appreciable benefit and potential cause long-term damage.

A congressional debate now . . . would complicate our efforts

I try not to complicate things at all.

We cannot continue to negotiate forever. Divisions in the (rebel) movements complicate the whole process and we are trying to bring the factions closer together.

If each time the Palestinians and the Israelis have a problem ... the Palestinians strike at European people and European interests, it will complicate matters greatly.