#explain

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#always #comfort #explain #felt #great

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#being scared #craziness #deny #enjoy #explain

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#always #anyhow #asks #client #even

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. ↗

— Barack Obama

#bitter #cling #explain #frustrations #get

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#head #him #his #listener #nods

My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication. ↗

— Della Reese

#changes #diet #doctor #exercise #explained

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#american #befuddled #cities #east #etc

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #comedy #explain #first #had

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#bear #cannot #else #everything #evolution

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#god #i #i do #idea #live