Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

No excuses. No explanations. — Tony Dungy
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations. — C.S. Lewis
I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s… — Stephen Fry
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the… — P.G. Wodehouse
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness. — Virginia Woolf
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle
Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels… — Jostein Gaarder
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is… — Joyce Carol Oates
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. — Milan Kundera
Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And… — Unknown Author
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation — Isaac Newton
A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be… — Hermann Hesse
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The… — Brennan Manning
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in… — Chuck Klosterman
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. — Lewis Carroll
I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where… — Malcolm Gladwell
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. — Isabel Allende
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! — H.G. Wells
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you… — Ted Dekker
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities… — Jose Saramago
The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want… — Harold B. Lee
I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower… — Saul Bellow
They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re… — Jennifer Weiner

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