I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A license cannot be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Being kind doesn't mean being soft or a wuss. Kindness is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of confidence.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Titles are relatively arbitrary to me; they take on meanings that aren't really my meanings. 'Sound Of Silver' was just, like, I… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
