#explaining

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

— Martin Gore

#always #away #because #different #explaining

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. ↗

— Asa Gray

#best #cause #explaining #extinction #families

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#explaining #fear #hope #ignorance #nature

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

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

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. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#behind #different #educating #elected #even

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#decisions #explaining #justifying #often #take

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

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. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#christianity #consists #explaining #fact #found

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. ↗

— Katy Perry

#explaining #guitar #how #i #point

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. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#believe #either #everyone #explained #explaining