Explaining Quotes
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
J. C. Watts -
God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.
Mary Doria Russell
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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
Saint Augustine -
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken -
And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
Alexandru C. Cuza -
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
Scott McCloud -
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.
Paul Davies -
I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs definitely all have stories in them; it's just nice to let people decide what they are. I think it's important that people hear it themselves rather than having me annotate it.
Tom Odell -
Clearly communicate your project: Imagine explaining it to someone not familiar with tech.
Sunil Nagaraj -
Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.
J. Christopher Burch -
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
Bill Gaede -
... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
Eleonora Duse -
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
William Whewell
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As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.
Justin Amash -
I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
Sofia Coppola -
We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.
Anne Katherine -
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
Kathleen Rooney -
I even tried to usher her into this century by explaining that wearing rainbows didn’t automatically mean a person was gay. The Lucky Charms leprechaun was not necessarily a homosexual. The Care Bear with the rainbow on his tummy did not have a life partner. He didn’t even have genitals.
Elna Baker -
An isobar of emos. If anybody needs that explaining to them, it's because they are linked by their depression.
Ed Byrne
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God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.
Nicholas Wolterstorff -
from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words: Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value
Andy Stanton -
It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
Eileen Wilks