Explain Quotes
2114 quotes by 1636 authors
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Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
— Paulo Coelho
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It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're…
— Terry Pratchett
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They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the…
— Brandon Sanderson
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And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you.
— Melissa Marr
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I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but…
— Ernest Cline
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The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but…
— Daniel Handler
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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly…
— Sarah Dessen
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sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to…
— Julia Quinn
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Why?†Eve leaned forward. “Sincerely, I’ve always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time.†“If I have to explain…
— Nora Roberts
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I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, "…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
— George R. R. Martin
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You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
— Brian Greene
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It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they…
— Daniel Quinn
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When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and…
— Jean Rhys
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The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for…
— Philip K. Dick
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The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us…
— Michael Crichton
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Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
— Paulo Coelho
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You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking…
— Regina Doman
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