A Quote by Konrad Adenauer

As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.

Konrad Adenauer

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Complicated Soon

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Konrad Adenauer
German - Statesman
January 5, 1876 - April 19, 1967

But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.

Marjane Satrapi

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

Lee Daniels

As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico is complicated.

W. Kamau Bell

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

Jon McGregor

Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows

Elvis Costello

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

Lars Peter Hansen

I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

Neil Diamond

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.

Lauren Kate

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

Beth Moore

I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.

Dan Mangan

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Rob Pike

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.