I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“I keep telling you: it's the mystery that endures. Not the explanation” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Not everything needs an explanation. Sometimes things just happen because we choose for them to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Do not ask for an explanation if you do not intend to believe and do not love a person if you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? — William Godwin Copy Share Image
If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
“You've passed like three stores that sell batteries," she says. "We need to get one now in case it's too late on… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling," Harry said finally, "that we're coming at this from the wrong angle. There's a tale I once heard… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Excuse me,” Erszebet said sharply, as Frink began wandering into an explanation of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory that even I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
