Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. — Rabindranath Tagore
Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is… — Lynsay Sands
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think… — Laurie Halse Anderson
It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow — Diane Duane
I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend,… — Claudia Gray
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. — Oscar Wilde
Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? — David Foster Wallace
I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. — Ishmael Beah
You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right? — Charlaine Harris
If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's… — Lee Strobel
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said.… — Agatha Christie
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings… — Robert A. Heinlein
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he… — Maya Angelou
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — Neil Gaiman
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. — Jane Austen
And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will… — Richard Dawkins
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that… — Paul Ricoeur
After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it!… — Susan Minot
Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full… — Tom Clancy
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or… — Michael Pollan
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call… — Wallace Stegner

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