E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.”
“Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain”
“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”
“Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews
“Explaining something to someone doesn't mean controlling their thoughts in the process. It does mean giving her the opportunity to develop on her own in this learning context.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me” or “Satan is attacking me” positions “me” either as the victim, if I am defeated, or the hero, if I prevail. But confessing that “My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.”
Source: Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life
“Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan: I didn't accept it. I received it.”
“Explaining the Jews in a Catholic school when you’re Irish is like having to explain your country’s foreign policy while on a vacation in France. You don’t know what you’re talking about and no matter what you say, they’re not going to like it anyway.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.”
Source: So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
“Explaining the rise of MSNBC, the Republican strategist Stuart Stevens said: “I think there are a lot of people out there who are dramatically troubled by the direction of the country, and they would like to be reminded that: (A) they’re not alone, and (B) there’s an alternative”. But loneliness isn’t the problem; the direction of the country is. And being alone together is not an alternative direction, just as a cancer support group does not shrink a tumour. It’s probably true that viewers of MSNBC are sometimes inspired to give money to progressive candidates, and perhaps there’s someone out there whose politics were changed, rather that their loneliness assuaged, by Rachel Maddow. It’s certainly true that a hybrid car gets better mileage than a traditional gas car. But primarily, these things make us feel better. And it can be dangerous to feel better when things are not getting better.
[…] Too often, the feeling of making a difference doesn’t correspond to the difference being made – worse, an inflated sense of accomplishment can relieve the burden of doing what actually needs to be done.
Do the children getting vaccines paid for by Bill Gates really care if he feels annoyed when he gives 46 percent of his vast wealth to charity? Do the children dying of preventable diseases really care if Jeff Bezos feels altruistic when he donates only 1.2 percent of his even vaster wealth?
If you found yourself in the back of an ambulance, would you rather have a driver who loathes his job put performs it expertly or one who is passionate about his job but takes twice as long to get you to the hospital?”
Source: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
“Explaining their point of view seemed to be a universal thing amongst the dead.”
Source: Ghost Talker
“Explaining to the person behind the counter "I don't have a trash can" became my standby tactic.”
Source: Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
“Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.”
“Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.”
“Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.”
Source: Masnavi
“Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.”
Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding”
“Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.”
“Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.”
“Explanations and answers are always constructs of thoughts.”
“Explanations are a substitute for trust.”
Source: Do I Know God?: Finding Certainty in Life's Most Important Relationship
“Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“Explanations are for cowards.”
Source: Citations: A Brief Anthology
“Explanations are ghosts of guilt, shadows of sympathy, and I have no use for them.”
Source: Fossil Fuels
“Explanations are such cheap poetry.”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“Explanations come to an end somewhere”
“Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.”
“Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.”
“Explicar con palabras de este mundo que partió de mí un barco llevándome.”
Source: Árbol de Diana
“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”
Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.”
“Explicitly Christian themes are regularly excluded from news articles.”
“Explique-moi, Roxanne, pour que je perçoive enfin pourquoi je t'aime presque autant que tu me hais.”
Source: Sylphide
“Expliquei para ela que o amor não existia, que era invenção de um italiano chamado Petrarca e dos trovadores provençais. Que isso que as pessoas acreditavam ser uma fonte cristalina de emoção, uma efusão pura do sentimento, era o desejo instintivo dos gatos no cio dissimulado por trás de palavras bonitas e mitos da literatura.”
“Expliquemos y demos una razón a los niños para todas las normas que apliquemos en su educación. Eso les hará saber que el mundo tiene un sentido y les dará seguridad.”
Source: Lo que dice la ciencia sobre educación y crianza
“Explode With Love (The Sonnet)
When the heart explodes with love,
The world implodes with peace.
When the eyes explode with oneness,
All divisions will begin to ease.
The road to an undivided society,
Goes through an undivided heart.
Be one with everyone and everywhere,
Shatter all habits that make you part.
There's no division that can't be conquered,
The question is not of possibility but intent.
All is right when intention is right,
All are one when the heart is unbent.
Devotion to one culture diminishes humanity.
Devote yourself to the world, and lo pours harmony.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Exploding into a million little pieces of stardust,
you light up the darkness in my soul.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.”
“Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.”
“Exploit the counter-revolution – Some strategists believe that a counter-revolutionary or right wing reaction is unavoidable. It is therefore necessary, from the standpoint of sound strategy, to send infiltrators into the right wing. Having a finger in every pie and an agent network in every organization, the Communists are not afraid of encouraging counter-revolution, secession, or civil war in the wake of financial collapse. After all, the reactionaries and right wing elements must be drawn out so that they can be purged or, if necessary, turned into puppet allies. Already Putin is posturing as a Christian who opposes feminism and homosexuality. This has fooled many “conservatives” in the West, and is an intentional ploy which further serves to disorient the West.”
“Exploit your failure and success is close at hand”
“Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence
“Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.”
“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.”
“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”
“Exploitation cannot and will not be solve from a system designed for exploitation.”
Source: Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity
“Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.”