We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true.… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on… — Moby Copy Share Image
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is nothis destiny that awaits for him, nor his… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
