Quotes with explain

  • Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
  • It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
  • What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!
  • I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.
  • If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
  • But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
  • When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
  • I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
  • The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
  • Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Muhammad Ali Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Remy de Gourmont The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ford Never complain. Never explain.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Lord Northcliffe A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
    Lord Northcliffe
     
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Gloria Steinem At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m passing the torch. I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Brad Garrett Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • William Carlos Williams But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ben Stein Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ann Druyan For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Stephen Hawking God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 19-20
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bob Mould How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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