We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary. — Alexandra Harney Copy Share Image
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad… — Moby Copy Share Image
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
