Explanation Quotes - page 4

There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter. (Jeff Lindsay)
If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone. View quote
Lee Strobel
Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. View quote
Bo Bennett
It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow. View quote
Diane Duane
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. View quote
Arthur Keith
The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in. View quote
Eric Roberts
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah. View quote
John Lahr
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. (Ronald Blythe)
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. View quote
Stockwell Day
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything. View quote
Samuel Witwer
Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever. View quote
Trey Parker
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. View quote
William Robertson Smith
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Modigliani's theory was a powerful searchlight on what was happening... It is the best explanation of what has actually been happening in the great swing of American life since the 1950's. View quote
Paul Samuelson
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. View quote
Charles Darwin
I am very conscious that there is no scientific explanation for the fact that we are conscious. View quote
Andrew Huxley
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. View quote
Carrie Fisher
With respect to my following, or, more accurately, being led by other members of the Court, that is silly, but expected since I couldn't possibly think for myself. And what else could possibly be the explanation when I fail to follow the jurisprudential, ideological and intellectual, if not anti-intellectual, prescription assigned to blacks. Since thinking beyond this prescription is presumptively beyond my abilities, obviously someone must be putting these strange ideas into my mind and my opinions. (Clarence Thomas)
Marxism-Leninism is the ideology of the working class, the most complete political doctrine, the most accurate explanation of social and historical problems. View quote
Fidel Castro
Marxism-Leninism is an explanation of historical events; Marxism-Leninism is a guide for action, Marxism-Leninism is the ideology of the proletariat, which must guide, make its action conscious to overthrow exploiters, to establish a classless society. View quote
Fidel Castro
I think that because I am rich, handsome and a great player people are envious of me. I don't have any other explanation. View quote
Cristiano Ronaldo
The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ levelled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system, which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonisms engrafted on them; and for this obvious reason, that nonsense can never be explained. View quote
Thomas Jefferson