(134 quotes found)
“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”
George Santayana
“Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
Jane Austen
“The government is quite rationally focusing on the issues that will deliver the most domestic bang for its yuan...That puts the US Congress and its demand for yuan reforms in the back seat.”
Carl Weinberg
“It's like having a persistent drought. At some point when you have drought conditions you have to institute water rationing, and that's what you potentially face in the military if it goes on long enough. You would get to a stage where you don't have enough people to staff your organizations.”
Daniel Goure
“Those vendors have had a feature that Rational is missing and that feature is their main selling point. What [IBM wants] to be able to do is give you a place to go to get access to the data and all the tools.”
Carey Schwaber
“Clearly the skyscraper is the solution to rational living in high-density populations, because it allows people to use mass transit in order to move people around.”
Carol Willis
“People are not as rational as we would like them to be. I'm happy we got these results, because I believe this is evidence that economists should take into consideration when we write investing models for individuals.”
Camelia Kuhnen
“No rational comparison can be made between individuals who choose not to take a position on the issue and those who stood by idly while millions were slaughtered.”
Bettysue Feuer
“It remains rational to expect [job] gains of over 200,000 per month in the upcoming months, ... The longer it takes to reach that point the more likely it is that forecasters will continue to skedaddle and lower their forecasts still further.”
Anthony Crescenzi
“The market for wedding dresses is more often than not led by emotion and aspiration rather than rational decisions and financial constraints.”
Claire Birks
