#explanation

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#deserve #explanations #need

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith. ↗

— James P. Moran

#anyone #attempt #community #explanation #faith

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#problems

Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish. ↗

— Fiona Wood

#underwear #art

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#always #been #explanation #man #none

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#chapters #ending #explanation #fall #get

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#explanation #how #mathematical #tie