Top 100 Quotes About No Explanation
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#4. 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
#5. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
Michio Kaku
#6. 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
#7. And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?
Julio Cortazar
#8. 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
#9. The logic of damage. There is often no explanation for it.
Abigail George
#10. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
#11. God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.
Oswald Chambers
#12. Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Jesse Jackson
#13. She would give no explanation of the real reasons for her death.
Paulo Coelho
#14. 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
#15. There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?
Jacqueline Sheehan
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The best decisions are the ones you can feel. They have no explanation - you just know.
H.M. Ward
#19. I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
John Eccles
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz
#23. 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
#24. The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Red Auerbach
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard
#29. Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation's necessary. Those who don't, no explanation will suffice.
Lou Holtz
#30. As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.
Martin Walser
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.
Peyton Reed
#43. To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
Ram Dass
#44. Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be be labeled as something unusual.
Bertolt Brecht
#45. I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.
Richard Dawkins
#46. Ever since the first day I'd seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.
Michelle Madow
#47. We don't always have the explanations for certain events and acts of God. He is sovereign. He owes us no explanation. He purposes to teach us to walk by faith and not by sight. When Scripture records an event or judgment
Beth Moore
#48. God is one answer to our need to explain ourselves, to make sense of ourselves. But the moment you just accept yourself, then no explanation is needed, and god is everything together and nothing in particular.
Adrienne Maree Brown
#49. who probably didn't know any better; to Louise Simonson & Brent Eric Anderson, for "God Loves, Man Kills"; to Eleanor Wood, for reasons that need no explanation; to Betsy Mitchell, for having faith; and Steve Saffel, for keeping both book
Chris Claremont
#50. For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#51. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin
#52. Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply cherished grievances.
Christie Golden
#53. Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.
Leonard Nimoy
#56. To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.
Jeff Jarrett
#57. If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. He who believes needs no explanation.
Euripides
#59. And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
#60. Maybe she appears terrified now because I practically chase her down and I'm giving her absolutely no explanation. I'm just standing here like a creepy stalker and I have no idea how to even ask her if she's the girl I lost all those years ago. - Dean Holder
Colleen Hoover
#61. Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
Florence Nightingale
#62. A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.
Mary Ellen Mark
#63. Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.
Sarah Dessen
#64. Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.
Paul Davies
#65. Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanation - it is self-evident.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#66. Create desire. After all, desire needed no explanation. The heart wants what it wants, most people would say. But what makes the heart want in the first place? No one ever asked that question.
Tony Bertauski
#67. There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.
Meat Loaf
#69. I say again, you must feel you are freed. It's not right for you to go on as you are. It's not like you. You're a different person. Don't answer. It's not meant to be answered. But it's like the gleaming of stars in a well. And no explanation.
Tarjei Vesaas
#70. How do you go on breathing and moving and doing things when you know there is no explanation?
Anne Rice
#71. There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.
Robert Jastrow
#72. There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.
William J. Clinton
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
#83. '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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
Douglas Adams
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Max realized that an explanation was no longer important. "I'm here because I love you," he said simply.
Diana Lanham
#100. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
Christopher Hitchens
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