Top 882 Explained Quotes & Sayings

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

The Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why they were fighting us, and we have ignored it. Mrs. Clinton has ignored it, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama. The idea that they're attacking us because of our culture is insane. We are now waging a war against them culturally. We're trying to impose democracy, women's rights, parliamentary systems on a people who don't want it. They're going to fight that.

When I was nine, I found a copy of 'Doctor Who: the Making of a Television Series' in the school library. It had a picture of Peter Davison on the front, and it was a formative book for me. It explained all the different departments like the script, cameras, and sets and explained how a television show is put together.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for his position. And then he said, "The ten minutes are over, and I have to leave now." Then my father said goodbye. He also told that us that in I think twenty or thirty minutes, I don't remember, "You will get a telephone call telling you that I have died of stroke."

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

History is all explained by geography.

When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

I fought a long time ago in Canada, I fought a Croatian guy, I don't remember his name, but there I had a size advantage. At the end, I explained to him about cutting weight. He didn't know about weight-cutting, so I explained to him, and I was bigger than him at that time.

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

Love can never be fully explained.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.

I changed the rules for allowing people to buy into my system as a franchisee. I explained in detail how tough running a Jimmy John's can be. I explained the long hours, the unforgiving weather, the late nights, the weekends, and all of the sacrifices that go along with the industry. I made it tough for people to get into the system.

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

[Kellyanne] Conway had just explained how they won the presidency. They flipped over 200 counties, and she explained, "Did you ever think, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe the problem is that people just don't like your candidate, that Hillary [Clinton] doesn't connect with people, that maybe people don't have anything in common with Hillary, that maybe they see Hillary as a man?"

But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is the analogy equated for the Divine Nature which became united with the human nature. They explained that when the blacksmith strikes the red-hot iron, the hammer is actually striking both the iron and the fire united with it. The iron alone bends (suffers) whilst the fire is untouched though it bends with the iron.

I've explained before the power psychology has on the markets.

Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.

I explained it when I danced it.

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

My dad never explained anything growing up.

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

I explained to my teammates I didn't want any distractions to the team.

Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Shut up,' he explained.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

What can be explained is not poetry.

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.