Explicable Quotes

#1. Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

Stanislaw Lem

#2. Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

H.L. Mencken

#3. The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#4. The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

George Orwell

#5. The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right to become his own subject?

Yiyun Li

#7. Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Terry Eagleton

#8. Nothing important is completely explicable.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

Paul Claudel

#11. Physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical.

David Bentley Hart

#12. There is no mystery
that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

Kamila Shamsie

#13. Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Arnold Bennett

#14. -the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown wickedness to arrive.

Nick Cutter

#15. A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

Ernest Rutherford

#16. Not all truths are explicable, Julia," he said. "And not all explicable things are true.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#17. It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman deduced, because a perfect God would never wish to deceive us. Nothing has been explicable since.

Tim Parks

#18. Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

Francis Parker Yockey

#19. I wanted him angry and out of his mind. I wanted to trap him.

Penelope Douglas

#20. When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.

Steven Bochco

#21. Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

#22. 'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'

Ann Coulter

#23. This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.

Oliver Stone

#24. Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply

Susan Cain

#25. My face is in his hands and my lips are at his lips and he's kissing me and I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. What 'Flashpoint' does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade's past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.

Peter Milligan

#27. Secret Service agents detained an Iowa man with a gun who happened to be walking in a Des Moines park where President Bush was jogging. Were they out of their minds? White guys with guns put Bush in the White House.

Argus Hamilton

#28. Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

Robert Wright

#29. Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Nikki Giovanni

#30. How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said.
'I was just guessing.'
'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

Jodi Thomas

#31. To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

Jonathan Ive