Quotes About Explanation

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.

Faltaba más -dijo-, yo no me debo explicaciones ni a mi mismo.

No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

I explained to Madeline that her mother had a common disorder called trichotillomania, which is the compulsive urge to pull out (and, in some cases, eat) one's own hair. It leads to noticeable hair loss, distress, and social or functional impairment. An impulse-control disorder, it's often chronic and difficult to treat.

A Jewish friend told me he never went to a Jewish therapist because it's too easy to assume everything dysfunctional about your family is cultural. Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

Desde hace mucho, todos tratan de entender por qué se extinguieron. Se preguntan por qué unos animales que dominaban el mundo desaparecieron de golpe. Quizá de todas las explicaciones la más válida sea también la más simple. Quizá murieron porque todos enloquecieron. Igual que nosotros. Eso es lo que somos: solo pequeños dinosaurios. Y nuestra locura, tarde o temprano, será la causa de nuestro fin.

não nos contentamos em fazer qualquer coisa, queremos igualmente justificá-la. O

A sabotagem é uma explicação muito mais convincente do que a ineficácia, Vadia. Quando é descoberto, o culpado pode ser punido. Faz-se justiça, alguém pagou e a ordem é restabelecida. É esse o ponto fundamental. O

Why? Why indeed. It was a sticky, impossible question and I didn't know how to answer it. How far back did I have to go to find the place where our roads diverged? How could I explain that sometimes a thousand little things added up to something so big it had the power to crush a relationship.

En nuestra vida cotidiana hay rastros que no podemos explicar y acaso sean totalmente nimios. Sin embargo, su representación mediante un dispositivo de localización... les confiere significado, lo que al parecer exige dar una cantidad tremenda de justificaciones. Esto genera ansiedades, sobre todo en las relaciones íntimas, en las que las personas quizá sientan una mayor presión para explicar cosas que simplemente no son capaces de explicar.

It did not mean that the explanation was always immediately available. But nothing happened without a reason; particularly as far as the actions of the higher mammals were concerned. There had to be a cause for every action. That

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience. The metaphysician reasons from theory to facts, the scientist reasons from facts to theory. The metaphysician explains the universe by himself, the scientist explains himself by the universe.

A sign on the wall read: "Please call our attention to your slightest dissatisfaction, whereupon the Chief Dietician will appear and explain in unforgettable terms the synergistic concepts behind her preparations, and make it clear why every mouthful must be carefully chewed and swallowed.

if one consults reason alone, one cannot assent to the articles of our faith it was full of mysteries; we are fools to try to explain them. This makes preaching Christianity not only a hard task but also dangerous. Had I know, I should never have been a preacher.

A good traditional conceptual instruction is what I got from my better professors at MIT. They would be at a chalkboard, and they would literally be explaining something and working through a problem, but it wasn't rote. They were explaining the underlying theory and processes and intuition behind it.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

I became a starter in Portland, and then I lost my spot, but for what reason? It wasn't explained to me. I thought it was unfair.

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.