Quotes About No Explanation

#1. There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

William J. Clinton

#2. You should know something, Miriam ... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

Ted Dekker

#3. Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life. Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.

Malcolm Lowry

#4. The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Adalbert De Vogue

#5. No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don't always realize it's around us.

Saul Bellow

#6. Doctors have come from distant cities just to see me stand over my bed disbelieving what they're seeing They say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as they can see they can offer no explanation - NATALIE MERCHANT,

R.J. Palacio

#7. The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#8. I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note - "I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week," - and no further explanation whatsoever."
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.

Mercedes Lackey

#9. Staring down at his button fly, he tried to find another explanation. Maybe he'd thrown a clot? A cock clot ... or maybe ... shit ... There was no way he could be attracted to another female.

J.R. Ward

#10. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do
what I did.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn't seen God's power and needed an explanation to justify their own powerless churches.

Bill Johnson

#13. The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

Vladimir Arnold

#14. It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Charles Darwin

#16. 'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Michael Craig-Martin

#17. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

Michio Kaku

#18. If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

Nelson Goodman

#19. Have you ever tried to stop her from doing something she wants to do?' Desiderio asked.
Mahdi sighed. 'Yeah, actually, I have,' he said. 'No further explanation needed.

Jennifer Donnelly

#20. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

Julio Cortazar

#22. She gave a little delicate sniff. "You're supposed to be explaining yourself. When one's lifemate refuses to claim his woman, there should be a reasonable explanation."
"You have no desire for me to claim you," he pointed out.
"That's beside the point."
Dark Lycan, Christine Feehan

Christine Feehan

#23. There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

#24. There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Tony Campolo

#25. The logic of damage. There is often no explanation for it.

Abigail George

#26. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

#27. Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.

Rush Limbaugh

#28. God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Oswald Chambers

#29. Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Jesse Jackson

#30. She would give no explanation of the real reasons for her death.

Paulo Coelho

#31. Lysandra had entered and passed out in her bed with no explanation for why or what she'd been doing beforehand. And since she was utterly unconscious, Aelin had just climbed into bed beside her.

Sarah J. Maas

#32. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Paulo Coelho

#33. Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?

Jacqueline Sheehan

#35. The part of the inexplicable should be al lowed for in appraising the conduct of men in a world where no explanation is final.

Joseph Conrad

#36. No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation.
The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double,
but sevenfold;
they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

#37. Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

Richard Dawkins

#38. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

Carlo M. Cipolla

#39. The best decisions are the ones you can feel. They have no explanation - you just know.

H.M. Ward

#40. If you find yourself with a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, then the most probable explanation is that you were made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

#41. Rue was a romantic. Her parents were a love match. Had to be, for there was no other possible explanation for them tolerating one another. Thus Rue held the very peculiar opinion that love made for a most agreeable form of companionship.

Gail Carriger

#42. I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

John Eccles

#43. As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Ronald Blythe

#44. The key point of the Tunguska Event is that there was a tremendous explosion, a great shock wave, an enormous forest fire, and yet there is no impact crater at the site. There seems to be only one explanation consistent with all the facts: In 1908 a piece of a comet hit the Earth.

Carl Sagan

#45. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Douglas Adams

#46. Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

Gertrude Stein

#47. The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle.

Ann Coulter

#48. In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life ... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

Michael Behe

#49. Max realized that an explanation was no longer important. "I'm here because I love you," he said simply.

Diana Lanham

#50. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Christopher Hitchens

#51. Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn't matter. Right now, being with him seemed worth whatever consequence could come from it. This was right, like it was meant to be. There was no logical explanation for it.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#52. There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Eben Alexander

#53. Where there is no more other explanation there is always another explanation of why there is no other explanation.

Auliq Ice

#54. There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

Ozzy Osbourne

#55. Well, no," you have to say, "your brain is sometimes an explanation; it's never an excuse.

Frances E. Jensen

#56. Honk!" he yelled. "Honk honk honk honk honk honk honk!"
His classmates agreed.

Lev Grossman

#57. If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Lou Holtz

#58. There was no explanation for how the school, which was the major source of misery in their lives, could have been transformed into the most compelling place on earth simply by virtue of its being Saturday. What a difference a day makes, Albie's

Ann Patchett

#59. The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Red Auerbach

#60. When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Herbert Hoover

#61. The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of
love and forgiveness into them.

Isabel Allende

#62. In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

Nevill Francis Mott

#63. If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.

Erik Larson

#64. CHAPTER LI AFFORDING AN EXPLANATION OF MORE MYSTERIES THAN ONE, AND COMPREHENDING A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WITH NO WORD OF SETTLEMENT OR PIN-MONEY

Charles Dickens

#65. I know that people who don't believe in God might scoff at the idea that the creator of the universe has the time or inclination to try incessantly (and with not much long-term success) to change my heart. I get it. I just have no other explanation.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#66. That was the marvelous thing about going back to one's roots; there was no need for explanation.

Alexander McCall Smith

#67. People who learn some correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see in the newly discovered fact an explanation of things that have no connexion with it whatsoever.

Marcel Proust

#68. Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

Adrian McKinty

#69. If something happens that is highly unusual,
and no explanation is readily available,
isn't "I don't know" the only appropriate response?
How can we justify leaping to the extraordinary
conclusion that an unexplained event
is the work of a god?
Unknown means unknown.

Guy P. Harrison

#70. Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead.

Harry Enfield

#71. He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

#72. It is no wonder that I had tears of relief, to find out, finally, the truth - to discover an explanation, a diagnosis that explained not one or two of my symptoms or behaviours but ALL of them. Finally, someone saw me

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

#73. Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation's necessary. Those who don't, no explanation will suffice.

Lou Holtz

#74. Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.

Veronica Roth

#75. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
-C.S. Lewis

Jodi Woody

#76. As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Martin Walser

#77. For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.

Jeff Jarrett

#78. Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?

Pittacus Lore

#79. While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

Paul Ryan

#80. Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

Gustave Courbet

#81. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Anthony Hopkins

#82. Mad cow disease? A crazy hunger for blood. There had to be a reasonable explanation for all of this. And there's no such thing as vampires, right?

Alisha Costanzo

#83. The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#84. Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Max Weber

#85. I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

Saul Bellow

#86. To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary ... and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.

Joan Anderson

#87. People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

Nancy Kerrigan

#88. [No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

Orson Scott Card

#89. Oh, yes. Men were pigs. Some were piglets, all oink and no bite. Some were swine-intraining, teetering on the edge between man and boar. Some were Miss Piggies, no explanation needed. And some were hungry hogs, devouring everything in ther path.

Gena Showalter

#90. I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.

Mookie Wilson

#91. We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

David Blunkett

#92. Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

Donald Miller

#93. I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn't understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

Megan Hart

#94. People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology.

Ryan O'Connell

#95. As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

Edward Witten

#96. I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

Paul Auster

#97. Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe.

Paula Brackston

#98. My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it's magic," Alex said. "There's no other possible explanation!" -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell

Chris Colfer The Land Of Stories

#99. Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

Rene Magritte

#100. I was so grateful to see Lissa okay that I missed what Eddie had already noticed. "You guys, where are Victor and Robert?"
Lissa's face crumpled, and even Adrian looked grim. "Damn it," I said, needing no explanation.
Lissa nodded, eyes wide with distraught. "We lost them.

Richelle Mead