Explain Quotes

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.