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Quotes About Explained

The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Again from Napoleon: The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man — reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.
~ Josh McDowell
Don't be so damned discouraging, said Wimsey. I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me. People have been wrongly condemned before now. Exactly; simply because I wasn't there. I never thought of that.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~ Douglas Adams
He gestured Arthur towards a chair which looked as if it had been made out of the ribcage of a stegosaurus. 'It was made out of the ribcage of a stegosaurus,' explained the old man
~ Douglas Adams
He gestured Arthur toward a chair which looked as if it had been made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus. "It was made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus," explained the old man
~ Douglas Adams
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
~ Agatha Christie
Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.
~ Agatha Christie
This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
~ Mitch Albom
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
~ Richard Dawkins
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
~ John Updike
What's Cabin Nine? Leo asked. And I'm not a Vulcan! Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything.
~ Rick Riordan
Digger motioned to Zoltan. "What about that one? He has funny eyes. Could be an alien." "He's Zoltan, a vampire like me," Phineas explained. "Are you sure? Zoltan sounds like an alien planet.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Are you calling about the ad? Ad? For the gently used Bentley for sale. It has zero miles! Well, that explained the backward driving. Macrieve & Nix
~ Kresley Cole
We've found his lair in a mortal city called York—" "It's New York," Stelian said with a roll of his eyes, as if he'd explained this before.
~ Kresley Cole
Darryl likes codes," Skylar explained. "A few weeks ago, I asked him what someone might hypothetically need to break into a supercomputer. He hypothetically made me this.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
King Nicholas had explained the lense box to
~ Eoin Colfer
I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan
~ Stephenie Meyer
I have read some books of philosophy in which the freedom of burdens is explained, that somehow we are all seeking some appropriate burden. Until we find it, we are horribly shackled, can in fact scarcely live.
~ Jesse Ball
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
~ Esther Freud
Humanity-Religion could only be true if at least half of man's nature, aspirations and sorrows were ignored. Christianity, on the other hand, at least included and accounted for these, even if it did not explain them.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.
~ Albert Einstein
Miss Rogers waved a hand. But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all! Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels? These are civilized rebels, young man. They have movie deals ! That's no guarantee of sanity!
~ Scott Westerfeld