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No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market. — Leonard Read

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do" — Robert Breault

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory. — A. C. Cuza

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. — Elaine Stritch

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. — Carl Sagan

The receptionist xeroxed my insurance card while explaining that chromotherapy isn't covered by insurance. — Miranda July

I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss. — Margot Robbie

If you have a dream to fulfill,
don't waste your energies explaining how and why. — Paulo Coelho

Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans. — Deyth Banger

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament

Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin. — Sara Nelson

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated. — P. J. O'Rourke

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. — Gordon Lightfoot

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers? — Gil Kalai

I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan. — Rory Stewart

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining. — Stewart Copeland

Don't bother explaining - I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true. — John Brunner

Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident — John Berger

You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies? — Katie MacAlister

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. — Eugene Fama

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different. — Chris Abani

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence? — Edmund Morgan

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field. — Jonah Lehrer

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. — Myrtle Reed

Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them. — Tom Hanks

When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. — Maria Edgeworth

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across. — John Madden

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility. — Ron Paul

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede

People have to find ways of explaining the work. — Andres Serrano

I myself do not believe in explaining anything. — Shel Silverstein

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do. — Kobe Bryant

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions. — Robert Teeter

It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means. — Henry Hazlitt

Wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards. — Ayn Rand

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him. — Ron Brackin

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict. — Paul Davies

Faking a smile is easier than explaining whay you are sad — Anonymous

The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

I am only describing language, not explaining anything. — Joseph Kosuth

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try. — Keith Rabois

The less explaining you do the less people speculate. — M. V. Heberden

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior. — Nancy Gibbs

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. — Leo Burnett

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky

Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain — Chief Justice Moalusi Tlotlo

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth — Gayle Forman

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. — Yves Klein

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. — Katy Perry

I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological. — Rush Limbaugh

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. — Reeve Carney

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.
[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.] — John T. Scopes

Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible. — Daniel Quinn

After explaining how a pearl is made she said: It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and give us our beauty. — Beth Hoffman

Explaining a miracle doesn't make it any less of a miracle. — Athan Fletcher

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example. — C.J. Mahaney

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference. — Albert Camus

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

Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to read aloud. Everyone knows that. — Emily Horner

ground-growing shrub rather like a small azalea,' Madame is explaining when I return — Carol Drinkwater

If you're explaining, you're losing. — Ronald Reagan

The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you're explaining and defending, you're losing. — Gerry Spence

There's no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own. — Margaret Mazzantini

Well, it just figures, Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion. — Richard Stark

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either. — Nicolas Jaar

I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people. — Shannon A. Thompson

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. — Martin Gore

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness. — Betty White

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

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act! — Craig MacDonald

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

Point taken. Thank you for explaining these things to me. Please continue to do so in the future." "I — Kresley Cole

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

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well. — Jim Butcher

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page. — Tim Berners-Lee

explaining that he did so "from a desire of testifying — Ron Chernow

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. — Edward Gorey

Friendship ... is like pain. Explaining it is impossible. — Norma Fox Mazer

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing. — Rick Perlstein

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism. — Paul Ryan

Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love! — Eleanora Duse

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. — Fred W. Friendly

Smiling has always been easier than explaining why you're sad — Unknown

Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil. — Rick Riordan

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it. — Sean Carroll

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty. — Julius Nyerere

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud

We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for. — Milton Mayeroff

I tried explaining to Blackjack that taking a flying horse to a donut shop would give every cop in there a heart attack, but he didn't seem to get it. — Rick Riordan

If you are explaining, you are losing. — J. C. Watts

Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing. — Peter Hoeg

I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics. — Leonard Susskind

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling. — Martin Freeman

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't. — Frank Zappa