Explanation Quote by Robert Breault Download Open image “Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.” — Robert Breault ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Metaphor Night Night sky Sky
“Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most dreamy-eyed among… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“I never saw a sky like the sky over Dorrego - so vast, so black, with stars in an infinite array of size and… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“In these countless stars, in their clusters and colors and constellations, in the “shooting” showers of blazing dust and ice, we have always found… — Paul Bogard Copy Share Image
“To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward them with… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.” — James Jones Copy Share Image
“The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not compare to… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
“Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations. Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies like a snowflake falling on water. Below us, some farmer, feeling… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“But even more heavenly than the flashing stars are those infinite eyes which the night opens within us, and which see further even than… — Novalis Copy Share Image
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient. — Robert Breault 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