Explain Quotes
2114 quotes by 1636 authors
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Insomnia’s different,†I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door?…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
— Isaac Newton
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When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the…
— Emma Forrest
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The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single…
— Douglas Adams
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If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus…
— Rick Riordan
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He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one,…
— Charlie Higson
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
— Franz Kafka
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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
— Orson Welles
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Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way…
— Abbi Glines
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Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the…
— Robert Jordan
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Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.
— Sherry Argov
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Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do
— Helen Fielding
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in…
— Robert Jordan
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I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.
— Lauren Oliver
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I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can…
— Franz Kafka
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Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain…
— Rainbow Rowell
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is…
— Tan Twan Eng
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