Best 64 quotes in «explaining quotes» category

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

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

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.

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

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.

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the last, and her features became serene. All at once it seemed totally clear to Mike that she was right and he was nuts - that his ingenius theory was nonsense, childish, fantasty bullshit. His conviction evaporated, and he was ashamed. He felt his cheeks grow hot, groped for words with which to backtrack - "I have to admit I have no better explanation for the the facts," Annie said slowly. Again, Mike did an emotional instant 180. "Holy shit -" She held up a hand. "I am going to think now. Very hard, for a long time. You will be as quiet as possible while I do." She got up from the computer, went to the bed, and lay down. "Think yourself, or read, or play games with the headphones on, or go Topside if you like." She clasped her hands on her belly, closed her eyes and appeared to go to sleep

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste. The one who tastes, knows; the one who explains, lies. How can you describe the true form of Something In whose presence you are blotted out? And in whose being you still exist? And who lives as a sign for your journey?

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

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

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

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

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

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.

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