Explain Quotes
2114 quotes by 1636 authors
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The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to…
— Stephan Pastis
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
— Isaac Newton
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I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
— Carl Jung
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If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move…
— Sebastian Faulks
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I’m busy sorting through our new collection of rhinestone jewelry. Should anyone be in the market for sparkly accessories the size of a hubcap, this…
— Jen Lancaster
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Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost…
— Loretta Chase
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His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had…
— Alice Munro
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
— Albert Einstein
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Rose only hangs out with guys and psychopaths," said Mia. "Well," he said cheerfully, "since I'm both a psychopath and a guy, that would explain…
— Richelle Mead
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I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the…
— Jack Vance
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The phone rings. “Asshole,†she mutters. She picks it up. “Will you let me explain?†“No.†She hangs up.
— Lisa McMann
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Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to…
— Erin Hunter
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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
— Mark Twain
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A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone…
— Janette Rallison
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Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.
— Janette Rallison
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You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own…
— R A Salvatore
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We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander…
— Jeffery Deaver
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