"Death and vulgarity are the only two facts……" — Oscar Wilde

More Cannot Explain Quotes

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• Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by… — Martha Beck
• Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a… — B.F. Skinner
• There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. — Georges Braque
• You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. — J. Richard Clarke
• Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime… — Peter Singer
• I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out. — Chris Noth
• Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the… — Robert Adams
• We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel… — B.F. Skinner
• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power… — Camille Paglia
• If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to… — John Hagee
• I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't… — Don Bluth
• The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . .… — Edward Everett

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