I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“...it's hard to confine an irrational woman in a rational pattern, so I had no idea really what was in her mind.” — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“Thus, though there is a psychological tendency of accepting the judge’s verdict and reasoning as expert reasoning and tinge of finality adorned to… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
![“Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.” quote by Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45f/howard-zinn-576_adventure_terrorism-has-replaced-communism-as-the_706007.jpg)
![“I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.” quote by Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c2a/ella-baker-10989_backgrounds_i-think-you-can-find-some-rationales-for_1379504.jpg)
![“[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the…” quote by Jacob G. Hornberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d0d/jacob-g-hornberger-22243_believe_d-ecade-after-decade-through-taxes-and-r_723709.jpg)
![“That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy.” quote by Michelle Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d78/michelle-goldberg-25331_astonishment_that-s-an-astonishment-that-we-re-waitin_1335415.jpg)
