Best 64 quotes in «explaining quotes» category

Never explain: Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

It's very important to know when to stop explaining yourself, because not everyone with ears listens with them.

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind, the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that, and why I don’t want to look like this and be like that but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.

The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.

People often pretend to be happy simply because smiling tends to be easier than explaining to others why they're upset.

Sometimes just explaining your predicament--to a bartender, a priest, the old woman in a shift and flip-flops cleaning the lint traps in the Laundromat dryers--is all it takes to see a way out of it.

There are bad people out there, Jimmy. I don’t know if you’ve seen them… they walk around like they’re lost. And they make people sick by hurting them. That’s why we stay inside.

When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!

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

Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done!

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.

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

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

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

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 writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

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

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

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

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

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

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

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

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

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