Elucidating Explanation Quotes & Sayings

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality. — Tom DeMarco

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception. — Nikita Dudani

If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon's waning. — Matthew McConaughey

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden! — Brad Warner

I guessed that one day the restrictions I imposed on myself would end. But first, it seemed that my range of possible activities would have to iris down to zero before I could turn myself around. Then, when I was static and immobile, I could weigh and measure every exterior force and, slowly and incrementally, once again allow the outside in. And that would be my life. — Steve Martin

For the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble ... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters. — Greg Rucka

Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature , are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still. — William Crookes

God, you're arrogant," Charlotte growled as Kingsley slapped cold metal handcuffs on to each of her wrists.
"I'm not arrogant. I'm French. — Tiffany Reisz

She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she liked. — Barbara Kingsolver

I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA. — Blake Lively

Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort. — Edward Bach

The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled. — John Kramer

I do have faith in humanity but I don't have faith in humans. — M.F. Moonzajer

I rarely acquire any enthusiasm for the opposite sex outside of being drunk. — Claire-Louise Bennett

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. — Patricia Briggs