Explained Quotes

#1. The elderly man from the ashram, explained to me, if the villagers wanted peace, they would feed and house the peacemakers. If they didn't want peace, no outsiders could help anyway. As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.

Gloria Steinem

#2. Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.

Richard Russo

#3. Life isn't a vintage film," Christopher said. When he saw my confused face he explained. "Things aren't always black-and-white.

Eileen Cook

#4. He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.

Ahmad Ibn Rustah

#5. Unaware of these distressing feelings, Sven explained what she felt was called love. Antonia enjoyed that feeling because it took her attention and entirely filled her mind.

Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

#6. I did not add that we would pass by a bookstore on the way. It's an addiction that cannot be easily explained and can rarely be overcome.

Joan Hess

#7. WHEN ASKED, CHARLENE had always explained away her life as a series of false starts that finally had disqualified her from running the race.

Reif Larsen

#8. He's got gas," Aaron explained, his voice muffled by the hand still over his face. "It happens when he eats stuff he's not supposed to."
"It's vile," Camael said, glaring at the dog. "Something should be done so that it never happens again.

Thomas E. Sniegoski

#9. The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. The stone is called the Rose of Lucifer, or Lucifer's Bane," the senator explained with a smile. "Have you heard the story?

Melissa De La Cruz

#11. The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

Moshe Sharett

#13. Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?'
'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.'
'But it's a dragon!

Rick Riordan

#14. So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Ransom Riggs

#15. Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

John Updike

#16. The more controlling the parent," Caldwell explained, "the more likely a child is to experience boredom.

Po Bronson

#17. Sad things are beautiful in a way which can only be explained to those who already understand.

Amelia Mysko

#18. Years later, a Japanese visitor tried to apologize to Mao for his country's invasion of China. Mao interrupted, "Should I not thank you instead?" Without a worthy opponent, he explained, a man or group cannot grow stronger.

Robert Greene

#19. Just in case we get into trouble, he can do that battle armor thing again," he explained. Splurt began to shift around, but Cal stopped him. "Not yet. Just if I give the signal. So we're clear, the signal will be me getting badly beaten or shot at. That's when you do your thing, OK?" Splurt

Barry J. Hutchison

#20. In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation," he said.

Julia Child

#21. David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight!

Ellen Frankel

#22. One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.

Maupertuis

#23. Oskar pushes away the blanket. Lies looking down at his naked body. His naked body that will give the lie to any false identity papers he manages to procure. Has anyone, he wonders, ever explained to me the significance of circumcision? Why I have had to sacrifice to God a piece of my sexual organ.

Glenn Haybittle

#24. The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. Poetry is and should not be explained
It's not a theory not a formula or a set pattern
It's a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image

Yarro Rai

#26. Whatever is dependently co-arisen
That is explained to be emptiness.
That, being a dependent designation
Is itself the Middle Way.

Nagarjuna

#27. I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Alice Sebold

#28. He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.

H. A. Dorfman

#29. What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

Charles Bowden

#30. He's a man, dear," Amelia explained kindly. "Sustained thinking is very difficult for them." "As opposed to women," Leo retorted, "who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.

Shelby Foote

#32. The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.

Oscar Wilde

#33. During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.

Walter Isaacson

#34. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.

Emily Giffin

#35. When a child is young," Burck explained one night (perhaps he was relating Hauber's analogy), "you can catch him if he falls. Then he

Blake Bailey

#36. With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

Richard Ney

#37. Well, reading Twitter's a lot like staring at an ant farm," Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. "Except without all the productivity.

Wayne Gladstone

#38. The could never have explained Bonaventure anyway because there is no scientific word for miraculous.

Rita Leganski

#39. She'd explained that I was an extrovert, and extroverts got their energy from being around other people. She was an introvert, and introverts got their energy from being by themselves. She needed to go home, be by herself,

Jennifer Echols

#40. He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled.
"You smell so good in the rain," he explained.
"In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously.
He sighed. "Both, always both.

Stephenie Meyer

#41. One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

Nicholas Sparks

#42. Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything

Elizabeth Gilbert

#43. An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.

Victor Hugo

#44. One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.

Michael Scheuer

#45. You're breathtaking," he explained. "All you have to do is stand there and breathe and the earth beneath my feet moves.

Quinn Loftis

#46. Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, such as the trackless flight of birds, could never be explained.

Larry McMurtry

#47. Lee explained to her that art for art's sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can't be living a life driven by need and desire.

Nell Zink

#48. The doctrine of the Trinity ... is truth for the heart. The fact that it can not be satisfactorily explained, instead of being against it, is in its favor. Such a truth had to be revealed; no one could imagine it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#49. The Lord then brought to my remembrance that His Word did not say, "Children, obey your parents only if they are born again." He explained, You are my Child; therefore, I place My wisdom and instruction in the hearts of your parents for your guidance and protection.

John Bevere

#50. Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

A.A. Milne

#51. A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Charles Ives

#52. Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

Michael B. Jordan

#53. Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Thomas Sowell

#54. I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.

Jonathan Ames

#55. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Mitch Albom

#56. Although my work is to grapple with words, I have no words with which to describe and explain this feeling. Perhaps I write stories to show that in life there are moments, emotions, and events that cannot be explained with words.

Shahriar Mandanipour

#57. Then he explained that only one criterion mattered when picking a job - fast growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them.

Sheryl Sandberg

#58. Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished.

Robert A. Heinlein

#59. As James Madison explained, the Constitution is of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written, unless it be stamped with the approbation of those to whom it is addressed ... THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

Jill Lepore

#60. Love can never be fully explained.

P. J. O'Rourke

#61. Paulucci and Michaud both attacked Wolzogen simultaneously in French. Armfeldt addressed Pfuel in German. Toll explained to Volkonski in Russian. Prince Andrew listened and observed in silence.

Leo Tolstoy

#62. Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#63. As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists & turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.

Anthony Horowitz

#64. A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

Daniel Kahneman

#65. It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.

Joan Holub

#66. She herself could not have explained the reasons for her silence;

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#67. I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Marianne Faithfull

#68. But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

William Robertson Smith

#69. How the agent explained this to me was, we weren't targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most.

Chuck Palahniuk

#70. The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.

Frederick Lenz

#71. Her. She looked like me. It explained much that she had not

Anonymous

#72. I'm not looking for clothes," Peter quickly explained, hoping she might like him better if she knew he hadn't come to invade her neatly folded shirts.
"That's a shame" the woman said.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#73. A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

Joseph Campbell

#74. It's sad to see Time's toothless mouth laughing the poets to scorn. The stars are all explained and the mist is all measured, and there is no magic left in this dreary world.

Mark Forsyth

#75. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Abraham Lincoln

#76. The hardest goodbyes are the ones that were never said and never explained, the ones where the story wasn't over.

Virginia Brown

#77. There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every culture, but the universal fact of this persistence must mean that no adequate therapy exists.

Patrick David Wall

#78. The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony.

Kent Nerburn

#79. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us. There

Stephen King

#80. If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.

Alfonso X Of Castile

#81. Love is a blanket that keeps you warm, not one that traps and suffocates you. You never learned that lesson, Rina. You never paid it any attention no matter how many times I explained. You kept pulling that blanket over my head.

Kristen Ashley

#82. Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#83. Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

E.B. White

#84. The Most Painful Goodbyes Are The Ones That Are Never Said And Never Explained ...

Bilal Nasir Khan

#85. hockey field at Red Maids' School. By the time Emma had explained why she crossed the Atlantic despite the risks involved, they were both staring at her as if she'd just landed from

Jeffrey Archer

#86. The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn't know how she'd cope without Buckingham Palace,' Princess Margaret explained to a sympathetic Peter Porlock.

Edward St. Aubyn

#87. Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.

Gerald Durrell

#88. Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.

C. G. Jung

#89. Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.

Anna Wintour

#90. Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs. Our entire lives explained in one French novel.

Victor Hugo

#91. About being brave", she explained at the question on his face. "I liked what you were saying. And it seems to me... it seems to me that it takes just as much courage to fight windmills as it does to fight the real giants or the monsters or whatever it was in the story.

Noelle Adams

#92. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#93. You see," I explained to Joshua, "what Joy is doing is ironic, yet that's not her intent. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm."
"No kidding?" said Josh.
"Why do I waste my time with you?

Christopher Moore

#94. Agent Carson pulled up in her SUV. We'd thrown her when we both climbed into her official vehicle, but I quickly explained that Reyes, my affianced, had separation anxiety.

Darynda Jones

#95. She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

Ian Fleming

#96. It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.
Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#97. Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

Raymond Burr

#98. The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

G.K. Chesterton

#99. Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#100. Time and space are different in this realm," he explained. "Your body needs a chance to adjust." At the top of the staircase we entered a room with bronze helmets decoratively set on stone pedestals.

C. Gockel