Explanations Quotes
224 quotes by 199 authors
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Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were…
— Daniel Handler
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No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of…
— Melina Marchetta
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Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
— Paulo Coelho
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Explanations are such cheap poetry.
— Stephen King
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When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
— Dan Brown
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I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that…
— Carl Jung
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IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where…
— Rumi
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We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations…
— Dan Ariely
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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
— Patricia Briggs
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Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled…
— Frances Hardinge
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
— Agatha Christie
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Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a…
— Paulo Coelho
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We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back…
— Susan Cain
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I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just…
— Ilona Andrews
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Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with…
— Ilchi Lee
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