Quotes of: Never-explain Keyword

If a man like that is killed, there is always another to take his place. That is not the important thing. But to act so that no man dares to strike you because he knows you speak the truth, to act so that you can no longer be arrested because you are...

God's Bits of Wood

Yes, sir, but the Librarian likes bananas, sir." "Very nourishin' fruit, Mr Stibbons." "Yes, sir. Although, funnily enough it's not actually a fruit, sir." "Really?" "Yes, sir. Botanically, it's a type of fish, sir. According to my theory it's cladis...

Hogfather

Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but the Soul of me—the wild, restless, breathless, discontented soul of me—never sat down before in all its life—I say, un...

The Indiscreet Letter

I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. "You mean the Mourner's Kaddish?" he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. "No," I replied. "I mean the prayers said when a person is actua...

Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does....

Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps

The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us...

La catedral del mar

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, ...

The Pact

Let's say I will rip your life apart. Me and my banker friends. How can he explain that to him? The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places ...

Wolf Hall

Have you ever heard a woman claim that the reason why she is chronically mistreating her male partner is because a previous man abused her? I have never run into this excuse in the fifteen years I have worked in the field of abuse. Certainly I have e...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Oh God just look at me now... one night opens words and utters pain... I cannot begin to explain to you... this... I am not here. This is not happening. Oh wait, it is, isn't it? I am a ghost. I am not here, not really. You see skin and cuts and frai...

The Finer Points of Becoming Machine

[Sennett is explaining the film industry to Chaplin as Rollie edits a film] Mack Sennett: Now I know this is all new to ya, but remember something, we're all new. This is not an ancient industry. This whole place here is built around speed. Start the...

Chaplin

Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

Consumed

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

The Constant Outsider

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Elites and Masses

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Jerome Bruner

He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing

The Human Script

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

Mindplayers

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Them

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics