Explicates Quotes & Sayings

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties. — Mahatma Gandhi

It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful. — Richard Flanagan

You really are something else. — Catherine Doyle

day's work, I drifted into sleep at once, soothed — Diana Gabaldon

A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child. — Napoleon Hill

My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us. — Gordon B. Hinckley

People though are rarely all good or all evil but often a mixture of both and we all make mistakes. — Lynne Graham

Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of second-hand clothing, worn out and passed down. — Damien Echols

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government. — Ehud Olmert

There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ. — Chris Oyakhilome

You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives. — Howard Dean

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury

Moreover, this earlier tradition has a different view of Christ than the one that Paul explicates elsewhere in his surviving writings. Here, unlike in Paul's writings ... the idea that Jesus was made the Son of God precisely at his resurrection is also stressed. — Bart D. Ehrman

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. Consistency is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands. — Homer

Literature recounts history, explores knowledge, narrates universal themes of human existence, actives human conscience, enhances understanding of human motives, and explicates the nuances of human behavior. — Kilroy J. Oldster

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations. — John Carroll

When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end. — Gregory Maguire