Explanation Quote by Rita Dove Download Open image “Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.” — Rita Dove ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Found Language Sometimes
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Words eventually find there way to reason, even through the thickest of skulls. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about. — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
It seems that words get chalked off as something the person said, but isn't that what words are to begin with. — Gayla Leach Copy Share Image
The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way. — Dani Alves Copy Share Image
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper,… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image