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To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical. — Stephen Burt

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade

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

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness. — Martin Luther

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

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

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

I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature? — Mian Mian

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

If you can't easily explain why you're having a meeting, you shouldn't be having it. — Shane Atchison

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

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong — Francis Crick

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

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Armand Gamache wondered whether CC de Poitiers was at that very moment trying to explain herself to a perplexed God and two very angry seals. — Louise Penny

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer

"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

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. — David Hare

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it. — Taylor Caldwell

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

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline. — Cass McCombs

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them. — Hanif Kureishi

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

I won't explain why. If you're interesting, you'll find out who I am. One clue, I'm a ghost. — Eka Prasetyani

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

May today find you happiness and a calm in your heart from God you can't explain. — Ron Baratono

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

The Spoon Theory was created by a friend of mine, Christine Miserandino, to explain the limits you have when you live with chronic illness. — Jenny Lawson

A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. — Henri Frederic Amiel

And yet, I am left with a kind of sadness that I can't quite explain. — Valerie Sherrard

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot. — Plato

To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law. — Thomas Buckley

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. — Simon Sinek

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself? — Mahatma Gandhi

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I am a good leader; I know how to explain men to themselves. — Anna Godbersen

I'd like every man who doesn't call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn't believe in equality for women. — Louise Brealey

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat? — Carroll Bryant

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter? — Zell Miller

Prof. Emi Ito said "Lailah, if you can't explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. — Ray Bradbury

I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot. — Lev Grossman

But pinning a size on an earthquake remains such a convoluted process that seismologists break out in a sweat trying to explain it to a layperson. — Sandi Doughton

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. — Whittaker Chambers

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. — Aung San Suu Kyi

If the devil doesn't exist ... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be? — Wendell Berry

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course. — Marianne Faithfull

Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Among the other things I've learned as a mother, is that women continue to explain way too much. — Avital Norman Nathman

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner. — Elbert Hubbard

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. — Bobby Ray Inman

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. — Lucy Larcom

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. — Sam Shepard

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied. — Giordano Bruno

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. — Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me. — James Blish

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

His voice has invaded me. I'm not just hearing it. I'm taking it in through all five senses. It's intimate in a way I can't even begin to explain. — Kim Holden

Books are a treasured friend, however it's difficult to explain it to a non-reader. — Aman Jassal

Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling ... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God! — Israelmore Ayivor

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. — Shea Hembrey

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation? — Francis Chan

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does ... it's illegal. — Lewis Black

Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain. — Chuck Klosterman

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw — Robert A. Heinlein

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

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. - [Sara] — Lisa Kleypas

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe. — Shannon L. Alder

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this ... — Marion Cotillard

999 ... I can explain it in a minute — Herman Cain

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess? — Thomas Sowell

I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me. — Holly Holm

If a boy pulls up and honks for her, go out and have words with him. Explain that your daughter answers to a doorbell. — James C. Dobson

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