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Quotes About Explain

I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control.
~ Wangechi Mutu
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
~ George Saunders
They were materialists, who hoped to explain the world in terms of objects obeying rules, rather than being driven by an underlying "purpose.
~ Sean Carroll
Why am I telling you all this? Because of course it might explain if not excuse her enormous desire that Tom should not endure so confused a life as hers, and was a slave to her own ideas of rectitude, as only a person who thinks they have fallen can be.
~ Sebastian Barry
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.
~ Rands
I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.
~ J. K. Rowling
My dear madam, the duty of thinkers is not to explain, but to demonstrate that nothing can be explained. The purpose of philosophy is not to seek knowledge, but to prove that knowledge is impossible to man.
~ Ayn Rand
Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.
~ Ernest Cline
We know that words do not teach, that only life experience teaches, but the combination of life experience coupled with words that define and explain can enhance the experience of learning—and it is in that spirit that we offer these words.
~ Esther Hicks
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.
~ Sebastian Coe
Bible teachers are to instruct in order to explain what they just did, or are about to do. Those
~ Bill Johnson
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
~ John Steinbeck
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
~ H.L. Mencken
My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.
~ Hanif Kureishi
We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.
~ Eric San
The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.
~ Justin Cartwright
Time travel is possible. Will explain later
~ Jose Canseco
And thus the museum took on a new role, and became a symbol and demonstration of time: time passing, time tracked, time catalogued. In some form at least, a museum is merely a chronology of its specialism, a consistent desire to order and explain events beyond randomness.
~ Simon Garfield
I wonder now whether it isn't dangerous to assign significance to that which is essentially vacant, but we can't seem to avoid it. We cover up the holes with our speech, explaining away the emptiness until we forget it is there.
~ Siri Hustvedt
after that I can die in peace instead of having to explain the most elementary matters to absurdly credulous halfwits. And
~ Bernard Cornwell
It is discouraging that many of the precepts whose sacred character is thus uncritically acknowledged should be such as to inflict much wholly unnecessary misery. If men's kindly impulses were stronger, they would find some way of explaining that these precepts are not to be taken literally, any more than the command to "sell all that thou hast and give to the poor.
~ Bertrand Russell
I'll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there's communication.
~ Vijay Sethupathi
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
~ John Cameron