Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.
The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.
[Fatherhood] is everything. . . . The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world. . . . We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is. . . . I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.
Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours. . . and has to be driven to the garbage can.
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.
"I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.
I explain that as Latinos, we can also be professionals.
Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged to adopt: a positive attitude "attracts" or "fulfils", depending on which author's weird science you go with, postiive results, with little or no action on your part required. Herein, too, lies the answer to the question I once posed. . . : would it be enough just to fake a winning attitude? No way, according to Doyle.
I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.
The thing is, when you're kind of creatively self-employed, your brain just kind of chooses the path of least resistance, so if you really exhausted and you've had a long day, then that's typically when you might respond to emails or if you're on a plane and have nothing else to do, then you might listen to music and write these satirical pieces trying to explain the charts with music theory.
I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.
Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.