Explanation Quotes
903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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
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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
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It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow
— Diane Duane
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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
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
— Oscar Wilde
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Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
— David Foster Wallace
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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
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In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
— Ishmael Beah
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
— Dean Koontz
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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
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