I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of… — Swami Abhedananda Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does… — Joseph E. LeDoux Copy Share Image
Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome...… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple:… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children,… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes… — John Muir Copy Share Image
An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I believe there is an explanation for everything - although we shall never know the explanation for everything. Not everything in this… — Steve Augarde Copy Share Image
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff.… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“His explanation takes two minutes exactly. The shale lies a mile underground, has lain there since before there was a Pennsylvania, before… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
“Woman cries for nothing, is sad for no apparent reason and suffers without anyone knowing why. And all this goes away as… — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image