complications

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Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. Alexander Alekhine

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. Alfred Hitchcock

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

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. Hermann Ebbinghaus

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions. William Stanley Jevons

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. Neil Patrick Harris