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Quotes About Explained

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
Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.
~ Simon Van Booy
I got dizzy, he explained. I should think you did. What were you doing?' Nothing, said Moon. I was trying to face one way or the other and I got confused and fell over. Let that be my epitaph.
~ Tom Stoppard
When I took the decision to join City, Pep Guardiola's call was very important. He called me, spoke to me about the project, and explained that I was going to be an important part of it. I felt very happy. The prestige of Manchester City's shirt is also very important.
~ Gabriel Jesus
Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished, he felt like he had just raped the tooth fairy in front of a class of kindergartners.
~ Christopher Moore
The words passive obedience indicate this. An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.
~ Victor Hugo
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
~ Michael Behe
Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.
~ C. JoyBell C.
The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.
~ Thomas C. Oden
How the agent explained this to me was, we weren't targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
But the fraud being once established, could not afterward be explained, for it is with a pious fraud as with a bad action, it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
~ Thomas Paine
I laughed derisively. For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious. I was laughing. Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit. Derisively, I explained.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
~ Daniel Kahneman
the core narrative of how society is organized and how it is reciprocally explained by its inhabitants with reference to a set of collective values deemed appropriate to underpin it.
~ Helen Graham
If she is still there in the morning – if she has not run into the lee of Norfolk Island – and if there is no extraordinary change in the weather, I shall have to heave to. To stop,' he added, for a person who could call a cutter a ship after so many years at sea might need even simpler terms explained.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
He's nearly a man, Faldor explained to Aunt Pol, and a man always has need of a good knife.
~ David Eddings
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
~ Clint Black
As Don Louis led them towards Isabella's chambers, he explained to Alvero that their arrival was particularly fortuitous.
~ Howard Fast
They live down on gallery two in the Chinese Sixteenth.' 'Don't you mean the Chinese Quarter?' said Peter. 'No. That would be a quarter of a gallery,' Festival explained. 'This is only a sixteenth.' She
~ Colin Thompson
The door is ajar," the dashboard said. "It won't shut up," I explained to him. "It gets sort of Zen after a while," Butters said brightly. "Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
~ Jim Butcher
The reason such elementary things have to be explained to the Russian "democrats" is that they are so immersed right up to their ears in the mud of petty-bourgeois ideas that to imagine any but a petty-bourgeois order of things is quite beyond them.
~ Vladimir Lenin
A great work—yes; but not the greatest, unless he find a State suitable to him; for in a State which is suitable to him, he will have a larger growth and be the saviour of his country, as well as of himself. The causes why philosophy is in such an evil name have now been sufficiently explained: the injustice of the charges against her has been shown—is there anything more which you wish to say? Nothing
~ Plato