Explaining Quotes

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It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken… — Ann Beattie
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who… — Grace Paley
If you're explaining, you're losing. — Ronald Reagan
Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He -… — Cinda Williams Chima
Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would… — John Green
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that… — Holly Black
The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she… — Christopher Paolini
You think youâ€™re a very clever fellow, donâ€™t you?â€ Saldur challenged. â€œNo, Your Grace,â€ Merrick replied. â€œClever is the man who makes a fortune selling… — Michael J. Sullivan
I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer.… — Arthur Rimbaud
I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so… — Charles Simic
There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I… — Nicholas Sparks
When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesnâ€™t â€œmean anythingâ€ because,… — Cheryl Strayed
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?… — Julian Barnes
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans â€” because we can. We have some impulse within… — Maya Angelou
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that Godâ€™s loving is trustworthy. I know… — Brennan Manning
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. — Carl Sagan
God is more interested in declaring than explaining. — Matt Chandler
I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasnâ€™t, it had a lot of explaining to do. — Darynda Jones
Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth — Gayle Forman

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