Molly Ivins Quotes

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it seems.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

In real life, we're not walking around waiting for something to happen. We live our lives, and then suddenly we fall in love with somebody, and it's a big mess because you have a wife already, and it's going to destroy your life. And, at the same time, it's beautiful. Often, in films, it's not like that.

I can't not have something attached to like what actually happens in real life. Like I can't do a romantic comedy without there being something where like, in the case of Annie Hathaway's character, her character ends up having Parkinson's, you know? To me, I feel like that's love, you know? Like to me. So every movie has to have that kind of sense of that.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

There are always loose ends in real life.

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.

Humans were always surprising me.

Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.