Explain Quotes
2114 quotes by 1636 authors
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HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living…
— George W. Bush
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The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It…
— Che Guevara
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear…
— Mark Twain
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They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such…
— Thomas Hardy
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he…
— Yann Martel
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And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the…
— Amy Tan
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It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we…
— Sharon Creech
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always…
— Booker T. Washington
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I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
— Jodi Picoult
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So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like,…
— Lauren Myracle
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I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it…
— Tana French
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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
— Mark Twain
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest…
— Robert Frost
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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
— S.G. Browne
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Never Explain Anything
— H P Lovecraft
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We walked on the beach, fed blue corn ships to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy and all the other…
— Rick Riordan
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My lord...I can explain-," Louis-Cesare began, looking less than certain that he could do anything of the kind. Radu held up a hand. "I am…
— Karen Chance
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