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BOBBY BOWDEN I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about....
ELAINE STRITCH Things might happen for a reason. But could you please explain me the reason why they happen?
EPHDAN You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actor...
KIRSTEN DUNST They're just trying to explain why things happen. There's no curse.
ANDY POLKA Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.
EUNY HONG I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me...
CARLOS GHOSN I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defea...
DARRELL ROYAL You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
MARY TYLER MOORE I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
ALEXIS KORNER Don't do stuff which you can't explain.
DEYTH BANGER I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decide...
NOAM CHOMSKY You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my polit...
DAVID LANGE If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I'm just trying to go out there and stop the puck. ... Sometimes things just happen instinctively; y...
BRIAN BOUCHER A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and the...
ELIZABETH PERKINS What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film?
DEYTH BANGER It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what di...
MORRIS DEES What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name someth...
CAB CALLOWAY But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't expla...
JOHN FAHEY A movie like 'The Apartment' is beautifully directed, but you can't put your finger on w...
JOHN HAMBURG It's just one of those things that happen in hockey. But we have a nice streak going against them, a...
MARTIN GELINAS I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million ...
DANIEL BALDWIN A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say yo...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you c...
APOLO OHNO Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.
RON HALL An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
EARL WILSON Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.
DARIUS RUCKER Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with yo...
ERIC LEFKOFSKY Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS I don't really like to explain my songs.
YANNI You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
MARISSA MAYER An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
LAURENCE J. PETER To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it hap...
BOBBY BOWDEN You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
KEN KESEY Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees qu...
FAT JOE It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
BARRY BONDS You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. I...
PHIL KNIGHT Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a foo...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the...
OZWALD BOATENG You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe t...
PAULA HAWKINS I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think somethin...
DONNA SUMMER The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it...
EMINEM You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
FOREST WHITAKER How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
BRADLEY WIGGINS You don't know what in reality has happen...!?
DEYTH BANGER Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side pick...
OSCAR ROBERTSON Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you...
VICTORIA JUSTICE You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals unt...
BRUCE GREENWOOD You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you c...
LARRY KING I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
VIRGIL THOMSON Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's ...
EMERIL LAGASSE Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics ...
BEN STEIN The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's ...
ISAAC MIZRAHI To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't some...
ELI BROAD If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know ...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a...
ALICIA KEYS I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin...
DIANA GALBADON I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
CLAIRE DENIS Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
GEORGE SAUNDERS I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
BILLY GRAHAM These things happen, but you can see them coming before they occur. You can avoid these situations o...
SYLVESTER CROOM The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. T...
BILLY BEANE You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sente...
LEWIS BLACK The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why y...
SEBASTIAN COE It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much,...
TIM BURTON I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it...
SEVYN STREETER If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain th...
GAVIN NEWSOM I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I shoul...
STING There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I ca...
NICK CAVE I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going t...
SAM BRADFORD Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing...
PAT OLIPHANT I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically...
JANE GOODALL I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification ...
JOCHEN ZEITZ All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside...
RICKIE FOWLER I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good peo...
JAMES MCAVOY I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there ...
ALBERTO SALAZAR I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. I...
TED SARANDOS My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says:...
DIRK NOWITZKI You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give i...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.
DARRELL ROYAL I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
ELAINE STRITCH Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, b...
KAREN FINERMAN As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffa...
JIMMY CHIN That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I think the quickest way to get me to do something is really, 'You can't do that.' And I...
LAUREN HOLMES Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
PHYLLIS DILLER Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches...
ALAN BATES I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of...
CARA DELEVINGNE If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
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BILLY BUTLER I want to be a guy the Royals build their team around.
BILLY BUTLER I'll always be forever tied to the Royals organization and the community there.
BILLY BUTLER I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.
BILLY BUTLER That - 2012 - was definitely my best year, and sometimes it's hard to replicate that.
BILLY BUTLER You always expect to hit for more power.
BILLY BUTLER I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.
BILLY BUTLER You're only as good as what you've been. You can't rely on the past.
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BILLY BUTLER I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to j...
BILLY BUTLER I'm a redneck.
BILLY BUTLER I have been an everyday player my whole career.
BILLY BUTLER Winning is definitely contagious.
BILLY BUTLER Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it.
BILLY BUTLER There's always times when, the organization, we're losing 90 games at a time, and it always ...
BILLY BUTLER It's just my job to prove I belong in there. I've been in the league a long time.
BILLY BUTLER When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until...
BILLY BUTLER If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some poin...
BILLY BUTLER We were driving by the local athletic association in Orange Park, Florida, and there was this sign f...
BILLY BUTLER K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.
BILLY BUTLER I've always had a bigger body, even when I was 18.
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BILLY BUTLER I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.
BILLY BUTLER When the game starts, you don't really look at uniforms.
BILLY BUTLER My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named...
BILLY BUTLER I'm just trying to go out there and play the game the right way and lead by example.
BILLY BUTLER Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.
BILLY BUTLER When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER I'll try anything once.
YANCY BUTLER I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I...
YANCY BUTLER I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of t...
YANCY BUTLER I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
YANCY BUTLER My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him...
YANCY BUTLER My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,...
YANCY BUTLER Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
YANCY BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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YANCY BUTLER A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
YANCY BUTLER I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
YANCY BUTLER I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
YANCY BUTLER My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
YANCY BUTLER People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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YANCY BUTLER My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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OCTAVIA BUTLER Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comforta...
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SMEDLEY BUTLER Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
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JUDITH BUTLER I'm not big on the closet.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The money men make lives after them.
SAMUEL BUTLER The want of money is the root of all evil.
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SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to r...
SAMUEL BUTLER In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER Life is one long process of getting tired.
SAMUEL BUTLER Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid...
SAMUEL BUTLER A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
SAMUEL BUTLER When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
SAMUEL BUTLER The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
SAMUEL BUTLER I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging h...
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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SAMUEL BUTLER There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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SAMUEL BUTLER You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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SAMUEL BUTLER There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
SAMUEL BUTLER The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
SAMUEL BUTLER Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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SAMUEL BUTLER If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
SAMUEL BUTLER The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
SAMUEL BUTLER In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
SAMUEL BUTLER When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through eithe...
SAMUEL BUTLER Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated...
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it b...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
SAMUEL BUTLER The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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SAMUEL BUTLER A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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SAMUEL BUTLER God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as h...
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SAMUEL BUTLER For every why he had a wherefore.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
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