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Quotes About Explanation

If Brinna is your daughter, they really were three French hens after all." She opened her mouth to explain about the day she had found Sabrina, Brinna, and Joan in a huddle, and the comment she had made about "three French hens…
~ Lynsay Sands
coisa que não era necessário dizer, mas há leitores tão obtusos, que nada entendem, se se lhes não relata tudo e o resto. Vamos ao resto. 
~ Machado de Assis
He wanted to explain philosophy to me; I asked him not to.
~ Machado de Assis
novela à reimpressão que ora se faz parece que explicam as diferenças de composição e de maneira do autor. Se este não lhe daria agora a mesma feição, é
~ Machado de Assis
Dear God! we must explain everything.
~ Machado de Assis
Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Do you think things always have an explanation?" "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Benny explained that it wasn't her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers.
~ Maeve Binchy
You have to explain the invention to customers — not once or twice but three or four times, with a different twist each time. You have to show them exactly how it works and why it works, and make them follow your hands as you chop liver with it, and then tell them precisely how it fits into their routine, and, finally, sell them on the paradoxical fact that, revolutionary as the gadget is, it's not at all hard to use.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
por qué las mejores decisiones suelen ser las más difíciles de explicar?
~ Malcolm Gladwell
This is the price we pay for the many benefits of the locked door. When we ask people to explain their thinking -- particularly thinking that comes from the unconscious -- we need to be careful in how we interpret their answers.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
But in other aspects of our lives, I'm not sure we always respect the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storytelling problem. There are times when we demand an explanation when an explanation really isn't possible, and, as we'll explore in the upcoming chapters of this book, doing so can have serious consequences.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
doubts trigger disbelief only when you can't explain them away.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life." Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.
~ Malcolm Lowry
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
~ J. Richard Clarke
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
~ Taylor Mali
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
~ Alistair Begg
I am not the lady's husband. I do not have that honor and pleasure. Atalia is, in fact, my mistress." He allowed a little time for Shmuel to wallow in his astonishment before deigning to explain: "I am not using the word in the vulgar sense, of course, but rather as in the famous saying of the first Queen Elizabeth of England: 'I will have here but one mistress and no master.
~ Amos Oz
I said, If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict.
~ Anais Nin
Every line is pregnant with meaning and however much the meaning is ransacked, the riddle will remain because only you can explain it, and this riddle is your last triumph—you will never reveal it.
~ Anais Nin
For him there had to be a reason for everything; it had to make sense – and to make one sense, not two.
~ Andrew Hodges
All this was wasted on Alan, whose set work was Hamlet. For a brief moment he pleased his father by saying that at least there was one line he liked. The pleasure was dissipated when Alan explained it was the last line: 'Exeunt, bearing off the bodies….
~ Andrew Hodges