Explantions Quotes & Sayings

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world. — Freya Stark

Holy hell! Bryan "Mac" McMillan kissed her. Then grinned. And then winked. — Julie Ann Walker

Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy. — Arlene Croce

Kirk defined the ideologue as one who "thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature." Unleashed during the most radical phase of the French Revolution, the spirit of ideology has metastasized over the past two centuries, wreaking horrors. Jacobinism, Anarchism, Marxism, Leninism, Fascism, Stalinism, Nazism, Maoism - all shared the fatal attraction to "political messianism"; all were "inverted religions." Each of these ideologies preached a dogmatic approach to politics, economics, and culture. Each in its own way endeavored "to substitute secular goals and doctrines for religious goals and doctrines." Thus did the ideologue promise "salvation in this world, hotly declaring that there exists no other realm of being."17 — Russell Kirk

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine. — Ken Blanchard

We like t'believe that everything's got an explanation ... that our years on this earth make a safe kinda sense. We build ourselves up with explantions and rationalizations t'make us nice and comfortable
an' some people manage t'get through their lives without ever having to question any of it. But I think most of us have learned that ... just when we least expect it ... something comes droppin' down out o' the heavens ... that blows all our comfortable ideas right t'pieces. — Jonathan Kent

Nothing more costly than item that has no price. — David Mitchell

Is Jacob paying you for all the P.R., or are you a volunteer? — Stephenie Meyer