When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Explaining to an ignorant person is like knocking at the door of a deaf man. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.” — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it. — Brendan Kennelly Copy Share Image
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I do believe in hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven - I trust him as the authority, not you, me… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The Anatomy of Conflict: If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!! — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Explaining why you love someone is like describing water tastes like , completely undefined — Sabrina Colleen Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image