Best 64 quotes in «explaining quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

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

If you're explaining, you're losing.

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

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

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

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

If you are explaining, you are losing.

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

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

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

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

... 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

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

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

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

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

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

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.