Quotes About Rationale

It is for this reason that

pour le bon motif!

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

Organisations find no rationale to increase the salary of the employees, but get often reasons to deduct some amount from it under one or the other pretext.

Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd) That's Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele)

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

There is a genius for impoverishment always at work in the world. And it has its way, as if its proceedings were not only necessary but even sensible. Its rationale, its battle cry, is Competition

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

the entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such peril mattered, that it did more than just make sense but demanded his suffering and sacrifice.

I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that Saddam was fundamentally Adolf Hitler reborn. I think his feelings towards Saddam were in fact quite genuine and quite legitimately hostile. He was not play acting.

The sit-down strikers began to worry about the illegality of their action and the why and wherefore, and it was then the chief of all C.I.O. organizers, Lewis, gave them their rationale. He thundered, 'The right to a man's job transcends the right of private property! The C.I.O. stands squarely behind these sit-downs!' The sit-down strikers at GM cheered.

Romans 12–16 is lived theology, and Romans 1–11 is written to prop up that lived theology. Romans 12–16 is not the application of Paul's theology, nor is Romans a classic example of the indicative leading to the imperative. What Paul had in focus was the lack of praxis, the lack of lived theology, the lack of peace in Rome, and he wrote Romans both to urge a new kind of lived theology (12–16) and to offer a rationale (1–11) for that praxis.