Explains Quotes
227 quotes by 215 authors
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To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have…
— Henry Ford
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That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece…
— Alexandre Desplat
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many…
— Edward Abbey
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There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of…
— Justus von Liebig
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Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains…
— Rhoda Janzen
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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in…
— Andrew Motion
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If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains…
— Pope Francis
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing
— Karl Popper
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I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and…
— Karel Capek
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In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able…
— John Daido Loori
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While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them…
— Mark Driscoll
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This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their…
— H. L. Mencken
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of…
— Gerda Lerner
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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of…
— Knut Hamsun
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The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.
— Janice Dickinson
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The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christ’s witnesses all…
— Bill Hybels
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Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity…
— Gary Bauer
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A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it…
— Alice Childress
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