Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

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
Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold… — Robert A. Heinlein
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding — Mark Z. Danielewski
The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think… — Erich Segal
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks… — Lynne Truss
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? — Allison Pearson
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read… — Daniel Pennac
Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation… — Ilona Andrews
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of oneâ€™s place in… — Michael Shermer
Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes… — Francis Chan

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