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There are no explanations, there are no answers.
— Jessica Lange
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
— Harold S. Geneen
There are alternate explanations for everything.
— James Cook
Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
— Todd Bridges
We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.
— Simon Sinek
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.
— Julia Child
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
— Elena Ferrante
The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness.
— Laurie R. King
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
— Robert Zoellick
Wars have always been easier to fight than explain.
— Marty Rubin
All explanations tend to be self-serving.
— Marty Rubin
Here's the thing," Riley said. "I'm not really into diabolical possibilities. I'm more into logical explanations.
— Janet Evanovich
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.
— Paulo Coelho
I've got no more tears or explanations.
— Anna Akhmatova
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
— Robert Smithson
I didn't just see a future when I looked at Luke - I saw the explanations of my past.
— Nicole Williams
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
— Paul David Tripp
We don't know why anything happens or why anything is.
— Marty Rubin
There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.
— Jerry Della Femina
Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.
— Agatha Christie
Poverty is not always because of the decisions of the poor but there could be higher explanations for it.
— Oliver G. Hill
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
— Stephen King
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
— Kary Mullis
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
— David Deutsch
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
— Alec Guinness
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.
— John Shelby Spong
Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end
— Isaac Mayer Wise
I've heard enough Potter explanations throughout the years to know the general shape of them, anyway.
— G. Norman Lippert
A Warrior of the Light knows what he wants. And he has no need to waste time on explanations.
— Paulo Coelho
One reason we desire explanations is that they separate us and make us feel safe.
— Rabih Alameddine
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.
— Eric Russell
Human beings always want explanations. They have to know everything about everything and they have to know it immediately.
— Steven Cooper
Having words and explanations for things is too modern
— E.L. Konigsburg
The easiest explanations are often the right ones,
— Hanya Yanagihara
I do loathe explanations.
— James M. Barrie
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
— Michael Shermer
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.
— Leslie Jamison
A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.
— Agatha Christie
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
— Patricia Briggs
No excuses. No explanations.
— Tony Dungy
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
— Olavo De Carvalho
La mer is so much greater, so much grander than any petty human passion. It is itself, with no apologies and no explanations." Rosalind
— Elaine Leclaire
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
— Agatha Christie
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
— Paulo Coelho
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
— Tony Campolo
Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.
— Diana Gabaldon
When we walk by faith, we live on promises, not on explanations.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.
— Orson Scott Card
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
— Baltasar Gracian
People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. the research, of course fails.
— Philip K. Dick
Explanations are for cowards.
— J. Ross Clara
Long prayers either consist of repetitions or of unnecessary explanations which God does not require.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
— Gunnar Myrdal
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
— Kurt Vonnegut
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
— Ishmael Beah
What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.
— Fela Durotoye
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
— Rabindranath Tagore
We live by promises not by explanations.
— Adrian Rogers
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.
— Peter Dicken
Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.
— Tedd Tripp
That's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.
— John Brockman
The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.
— Wilkie Collins
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.
— Aaron Burr
You-your explanations have made you more tolerable.
— Claudia Jameson
The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.
— Nadine Gordimer
All she wanted was five minutes to herself, to hear herself think without someone demanding explanations or that she fix something she couldn't fix.
— Starla Huchton
