Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.
If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.
Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That's just how it is.
Every relationship has its complications.
I grew up in a family that was aware of the consequences of diabetes.
I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.
More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.
Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
Things never go smoothly.
The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.
I love Larry David's take on things in 'Seinfeld', which is that you shouldn't try to help people because it'll always put you into new situations which are unpleasant.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
I've had at least a couple botched surgeries.
No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
You've outlined the problem very well. Solutions are much more difficult to come by.
Referring to the myriad problems of campaign financing:
The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.
Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.