Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world,… — Oscar Wilde
Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling… — Larry McMurtry
Sorry,â€ she said, â€œI got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.â€ â€œExplain protocol,â€ Nell said.… — Neal Stephenson
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton
Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's… — Suzanne Collins
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected â€” an arrival, an… — Marilynne Robinson
Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How… — Suzanne Collins
Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever. — Sarah Dessen
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle
If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer. — J R Ward
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things… — C.S. Lewis
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had… — Matt Taibbi
Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others… — Paulo Coelho
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for… — William A. Dembski
Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in… — Oscar Wilde
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt… — Tennessee Williams
But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . .… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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