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Quotes About Explanation

Have you not explained to your friend? She seems confused. I've told her what she needs to know. I would suspect, Nephew, that she needs to know more. Particularly when I see how you look at her. Taka gave another sudden start, but didn't turn. What did his uncle see when he looked at her? Murderous tendencies? Vast annoyance? Or something else? And she looks at you the same way, the old man added, and it was Summer's turn to jump. Definitely vast annoyance, then. And something else.
~ Anne Stuart
The child didn't wake. She only nestled closer and sighed. So after all, Ezra could have put his coat beneath her head. He had missed an opportunity. It was like missing a train - or something more important, something that would never come again. There was no explanation for the grief that suddenly filled him.
~ Anne Tyler
Tally really didn't have the strength to explain that she'd really meant her hangover, which was sprawled in her head like an overweight cat, sullen and squishy and disinclined to budge.
~ Scott Westerfeld
The great thing about alpha was that it could be explained:
~ Sebastian Mallaby
Is this how I will forever live my life, owing explanations and apologies? When did this manner of making my way through the world start?
~ Shani Mootoo
It is not. Mom loves me, and she would not leave me without any explanation. And then her father began to cry.
~ Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons
The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge.
~ Shashi Tharoor
until Eric had explained that it was really just an excuse for a guy to rub his penis all over a girl and not get slapped in the face. After that
~ Shayla Black
That's Ash's baby. (Kyrian) Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.
~ Rick Warren
I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.
~ Seth Rogen
We can admit that psychiatry does not have all the answers to understanding mental disorders, so why should we believe that science is prepared to explain everything that happens in this world?
~ John E. Mack
Or they hope that I will find some sort of psychiatric explanation that can be treated so that the experiences can be stopped.
~ John E. Mack
Het was tien tegen tien. En dus was het geen eerlijk gevecht, legde Svengal later uit, want ze waren dus eigenlijk met drie keer zoveel als de tegenstander.
~ John Flanagan
Because the conversation in heaven is never revealed to Job or his friends, they understandably misjudge precisely what is at stake. This hidden information is especially poignant because, as Job argues his case before God, he believes that he can "win" if he can force God into court to account for himself, to give an explanation for his actions. In reality, Job has nothing to win because he is not on trial.
~ John H. Walton
Three days later, after the Chris Cox episode, a friend emailed Obama asking what he thought explained McCain's wild swings and oscillations. "No fucking discipline," Obama replied. As
~ John Heilemann
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
~ John Henry (Cardinal) Newman
That was an explanation, not an excuse.
~ John Jakes
marketing strategy is a clear explanation of how you're going to get there, not where or what "there" is. An effective marketing strategy is a concise explanation of your stated plan of execution to reach your objectives.
~ John Jantsch
Finally, when historians contest interpretations of the past among themselves, they're liberating it in yet another sense: from the possibility that there can be only a single valid explanation of what happened.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
~ Elinor Ostrom
The more complicated the situation seems to be, the simpler solution must be. .. People believe that reality is complex, and therefore they are looking for sophisticated explanations for complicated solutions. .. Reality it is actually simple.
~ Eliyahu Goldratt
Science is simply the method we use to try and postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a straightforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena of nature.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
He said, 'Sooner or later one of Them is going to try to explain Himself to me. God—or Lucifer. But though there may be a reason why my wings were cut off, a reason for doing it, and for letting it be done, the reason is nothing compared to the act. The world of the act is a different one from the world of the reason.
~ Elizabeth Knox