Quotes of: Rational Keyword

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

Alan Dershowitz

We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

Alija Izetbegovic

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

Abdolkarim Soroush

I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.

Zana Marjanovic

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

John Mahoney

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

John Mahoney

During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the filling machines. “But the men wanted something they could chew, something into which they could ‘sink their teeth,’” wr...

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

[Earl, on liking someone] Because, honestly, the rational part of me know for a rock-solid fact that I would never, ever get with Madison Hartner. But that was just the rational part of me. There's always a stupid irrational part of you, too, and you...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Everything You Know

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

The Flinch

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

House Harkonnen

I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. 

Between the Lines

Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens--for good or bad it simply happens. - Katrina Svensen

Coffeehouse Angel

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

Austenland

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

King of the Murgos

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

Rational Theology

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

Stealing Athena