Explanation Quotes · Page 14

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

— Tullian Tchividjian

It is better to ask many times to repeat the explanation than to claim to have understood incorrectly in haste.

— Vikrant Parsai

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

— Neil Young

If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside…

— Drew Barrymore

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

— George Burns

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

— Dimitar Sasselov

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

— Diane Duane

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I love it," I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no…

— Harry Browne

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts…

— Anonymous

The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out…

— Ian Mckellen

Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident.…

— Stephen Schneider

Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom…

— Robert Moss

“Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the…

— Fiona Wood

The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from…

— Sigmund Freud

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this…

— Douglas Coupland

“He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them;…

— Caspar Friedrich Wolff

A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to…

— Louise Bourgeois

Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games,"…

— Suzanne Collins

What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of…

— Duane Gish

Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified…

— Richard Dawkins

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

— Robert Breault

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

— Aaron Burr

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

— Simon Sinek

After ive had enough I'll cut you off completely, no words, no explanation, no nothing...you'll figure it out one day.

— Anonymous

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

— Gunnar Myrdal

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

— Terry Bozzio

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

— George Leigh Mallory

Never trust a person that vanishes from your life without an explanation, and then tries to come back.

— Sonya Parker

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

— Olavo de Carvalho

Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is…

— Hillel the Elder

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

— Bonnie Raitt

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

— Archibald MacLeish

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the…

— Madeleine Albright

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

— Anonymous

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

— Dick Gephardt