Confusing Explanations Quotes & Sayings

In the early days of the project, Teller was concerned that the intense heat of a nuclear explosion would set fire to the atmosphere and kill every living thing on earth. A — Eric Schlosser

If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it. — Emmylou Harris

The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself out of his chamber and into Nepenthe's, so that he could tell her why he had not come to tell her why he had not come. — Patricia A. McKillip

Recognized as a way to build and maintain a network of mutually beneficial relationships, nonreproductive sex no longer requires special explanations. Homosexuality, for example, becomes far less confusing, in that it is, as E. O. Wilson has written, above all a form of bonding ... consistent with the greater part of heterosexual behavior as a device that cements relationships. — Christopher Ryan

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

He wanted to know things, not reveal them. — Terry Goodkind

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom. — Yochai Benkler

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore. — Jenny Han

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. — Ron Fournier