#plain

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid. ↗

— Joan Chen

#born #certain #drama #explain #how

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#afterwards #explain #foretell #going #happen

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain. ↗

— George Crabbe

#constant #farmers #flourish #gain #like

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much. ↗

— Broderick Crawford

#explain #hard #i #like #much

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month. ↗

— James Daly

#complaining #every #get #going #i

The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures. ↗

— Rick Danko

#complain #could #hear #here #i

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#complain #conditions #deny #die #feel

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#difficult #explain #improbable #more #nature