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Quotes About Explanation

Sex is a sensation caused by temptation, when a man puts his location in a woman's destination, did you understand the explanation or would you like a demonstration?
~ Unknown
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Me explicaron que era una cordial invitación a que me fuera de inmediato.
~ Mario Benedetti
Me doy cuenta de que siempre temí esta explicación, pero también me doy cuenta de que mi mayor temor era que no llegara.
~ Mario Benedetti
If you would like food manufacturers to explain more about the chemical ingredients listed on food labels, take up this matter with your congressional representatives. Congress tells the FDA what to do.
~ Marion Nestle
R. F. Kahn asked, "If I went out tomorrow and bought a new overcoat, that would increase unemployment?" "Yes," said Hayek, "but … it would take a very long mathematical argument to explain why.
~ Unknown
I think I understood intuitively that there was no sustenance for me in the religion of explanation and prohibition.
~ Mark Doty
Ufologists are at a loss to explain the lack of sightings in Israel's near neighbors—it is as if the aliens, unlike most Earthlings, are aware of Israel's borders.
~ Unknown
Step two of properly interpreting a symbol in Revelation is to recognize that all the symbols in the book are explained either in Revelation itself or in other parts of the Bible.
~ Unknown
whatever is not thus explained is to be taken as literal.
~ Unknown
Love," Pino said. "They played con smania, with passion, but the passion came from love. There's no other explanation. All great things come from love, don't they?" "I guess they do," Anna said, and looked away. "The worst things, too." "What does that mean? "Another time, Pino. Right now, I'm too happy.
~ Unknown
Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.
~ Jane Wyman
The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.
~ Bassem Youssef
No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad."-Nastasya
~ Unknown
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.
~ Ben Bernanke
The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.
~ Henry Dwight Sedgwick
You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.
~ Jim Butcher
The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt
~ Leon M. Lederman
As the explanation wound on, Eck began to get a whiff of the unmistakable scent of bullshit.
~ Unknown
The process approach employs narrative explanation that notes the contributions actions and events make to a particular outcome and then configures these parts into a whole episode ( Polkinghorne, 1988). It
~ Unknown
they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
~ Martha Beck
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
~ Martin H. Fischer
If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Dad reckoned there was a rational explanation for everything, even things that made no sense at all. UFOs, ghosts, God - they're just the names people came up with for stuff they haven't worked out yet.
~ Unknown