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Quotes About Explain

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.
~ John Anderson
We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
~ Joe Elliott
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
~ Charles Dickens
The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognize the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
~ Martin Bashir
The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to explain it is indulging in a certain arrogance.
~ Christopher R. Browning
It had been a marihuana party. My wife and I tried to explain to her what this meant. That marihuana was the bait, and dope addiction the trap.
~ Jack Webb
It may be that all the laws of energy, and all the properties of matter, and all the chemistry of all the colloids are as powerless to explain the body as they are impotent to comprehend the soul. For my part, I think not." D'Arcy Thompson
~ James Gleick
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.
~ Jim Talent
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.
~ Bjarke Ingels
I would prefer a society where we don't have to explain ourselves. But I get that many people just need those labels to understand it. And if I make my situation or beliefs more understandable by putting labels on it, I'm happy to do it.
~ Conchita Wurst
As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures, campaign finance reports, and have to face the scrutiny of public opinion.
~ Dick Durbin
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.
~ G. H. Hardy
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
~ Stanley Baldwin
That is something you can never explain, it is part of all sporting life. Anybody can have a bad day and they can have many good days.
~ Felipe Massa
It's hard to explain why I was so nervous: it was partly that little children are mysterious beings, and partly because I genuinely believed in first grade.
~ Nicholson Baker
Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.
~ Chuck Klosterman
This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
I can only explain my behaviour then by the mechanism of that dream vacuum wherein revolves a deranged mind.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Frightened for My Life by Geoff Cugan, it will explain
~ Charles Bronson
An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
~ Charles Dickens
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
~ Charles Dickens
How many times I have explain? I pee over there, over there and over there. Technically make it Bigfoot territory.
~ Graham Roumieu
Let me understand you. Let me piece you together, hold you together. Let me help you to explain yourself.
~ Greg Egan