Explanation Quotes

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.

I forgot to remember to forget.

...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!

The American vice is explanation.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

I do loathe explanations.

And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

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.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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.

In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

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.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.

Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?

We've got ego's like hairdos.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?

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.

We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.

Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we?

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.