There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous.
("New York Blues")
Stichwörter: explanations ominous innocuous
When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.'
("The Basilisk")
Stichwörter: life love explanations
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.
Tim CahillStichwörter: explanations apologies future-generations forgotten-past
It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo")
Stichwörter: experience explanation explanations
A thoughtful expression crossed the woman’s damp face. “I used to beat myself up over my body. What woman doesn’t?” She paused, as if thinking about her words. “I finally decided I’d had enough. It was time to believe in me, without shame. I still slip up and have doubts. But for the most part, I take pride in who I am.
Abby NilesStichwörter: explanations appearances
Explanations are for cowards.
J. Ross ClaraStichwörter: questioning questions explanation cowardice answers explanations motto cowards
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.
Pat RileyStichwörter: inspirational real-life explanations expectations complacency defeat win breakthrough
Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains such things any better? Just because religion attempts to answer such questions does not mean its answers are correct. And such answers never seem to achieve any consensus. What is the meaning of life? Your answer is as good as mine--or just as bad.
G.M. JacksonStichwörter: science meaning-of-life explanations consensus science-and-religion
It's a fruitless task, explaining yourself," he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. "Either people get you, or they don't. In fact, even when they get you, it's always…a disappointment.
Alethea BlackStichwörter: disappointment explanations imperfection
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