Famous quotes containing the word explaining:
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)
“... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)
“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)