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If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. — Robert Breault

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain. — Russell Smith

Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. — Paulo Coelho

It's supernatural, hard to explain it any further. — Chelsea Ballinger

Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you? — Mariko Tamaki

Force yourself to explain it and you create lies. — Haruki Murakami

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high. — Michelle Obama

There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain. — Anthony Trollope

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy
a vice which yields no return? — Honore De Balzac

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. — Octavia E. Butler

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything. — William Of Ockham

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind. — Mitt Romney

At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch. — Douglas Coupland

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing — Katherine Mansfield

"if a rock falls on another rock on the other side of the moon, how does Islam explain it?"
"Who Cares?" — Nuh Ha Mim Keller

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I'd tried to explain to her that she needed to stop seeing the world through pretty-girl glasses. It skewed her perspectives. — Sariah Wilson

That was my first hint that groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.18 — Jonathan Haidt

the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those — Yuval Noah Harari

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine. — Rob Lowe

The wise can coach and explain but only you can unshackle your mind. — Philip Arnold

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it. — David Foster Wallace

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on. — David Foster Wallace

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. — Lewis Thomas

How else to explain the accomplishments of a warrior such as Artemis Entreri, who could outfight many drow veterans ten times his age? — R.A. Salvatore

We aren't afraid of what we can explain. — Aspen Matis

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain — Harry Styles

Could this explain my visions? Could M be for Mom, me, and meet? Maybe my future really could lie in my past. — Heather Sappenfield

The idea of it's great," I explain. "But then there's the actual thing of it. — Kristopher Jansma

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain. — Brassai

Ranger's gonna hate this," Tank said. "Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel. — Janet Evanovich

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself. — Myles Munroe

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. — Pat Riley

I'm still here, Ash. I can justify and explain my actions, but Maca's not and I'll never do that to him. — Lesley Jones

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. — John Ambrose Fleming

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev

I've seen things I can't explain. And I believe in things I can't see. I believe in fate and luck and curses. — Abigail Roux

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished. — Fred Alan Wolf

I would far rather convey grace than explain it. — Philip Yancey

When the past is hard to explain, it's best to concentrate on the future. — Nell Zink

If you win, you need not have to explain ... If you lose, you should not be there to explain! — Adolf Hitler

My brother tried to explain sex to me when I was 7 - and he did it with a cup. — Kevin Hart

In fact, I'm doubting that love exists. Maybe, as a society, we made it up to explain and justify our unhealthy desire for co-dependence." He — Penny Reid

You can never explain it. At its best, you can only feel love and beauty. — Debasish Mridha

I learned, one, you shouldn't ever quit. And I learned, two, you'll never be able to explain it to anybody — Jim Ryun

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything. — E.F. Schumacher

How to explain Time and Separateness back to God, Who had never thought of them, Who could let the whole world come to grief in a scattering moment? — Eudora Welty

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. — Libba Bray

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice. — J.K. Rowling

Maybe in a few years I'll be able to explain things better, but after a few years it probably won't matter anymore, will it? — Haruki Murakami

Please just tell me where you are.
His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain. — Maggie Stiefvater

love can
embellish its beginning
sing its blossoming
and engrave its eternities

but can never
explain its loss. — Sanober Khan

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot. — Takuan Soho

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. — Dave Hickey

Life is not something you ponder to explain; life is something you deeply love and live. — Debasish Mridha

Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general. — Siobhan Maclean

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself. — Sara Quin

It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn't have the energy to try. — Hanya Yanagihara

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you can explain, then it's not the Dream. The dream can never be put into words, it can only be felt through the heart — Sarvesh Jain

Don't ask me to explain it, but when I'm around you, I'm happy. That's all I'm after. — Vi Keeland

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth. — Henry Reed

Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain. — Jeremy Clarkson

The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail. — Sue Monk Kidd

A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence. (154) — Harold O.J. Brown

I can't explain to you what it's like to be a heartthrob. I don't think I am a heartthrob. — Zac Efron

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. — Paul Claudel

Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work. — Sarah Hall

We prove, we do not explain, our birth, — Marianne Moore

Sometimes You Just Gotta Stay Silent Cause No Words Can Explain The Shit Thats Going On In Your Mind And Heart — Bryant McGill

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me. — Huey Long

Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words — Dante Alighieri

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are. — Laird Barron

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women ... merely adored. — Oscar Wilde

He was going to need God Almighty to come down from On High to explain this one. — Kelly Moran

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. — Edith Hamilton

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us. — Joel Osteen

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself. — Dolly Parton

I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh. — Harmony Korine

Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know. — Miguel Ruiz

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it. — Luise Rainer

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see ... — Orlando Aloysius Battista

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. — Simon Callow

There comes a time in every endeavor when one must take fate by the lapels and explain the need for urgency. — Karen Hawkins

It's humiliating to have to explain your value. — Christine Vachon

Call me Meier, Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke . — Philip Jose Farmer

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it. — St. Vincent

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards? — Nicholas D. Kristof

Please, let me explain why I have spoken about things that should never be discussed, and which I will never mention again. "Martha — Anita Diamant