Explaining Quotes

Explaining Quote of the day

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

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

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing.

[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

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

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

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

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

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

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

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.