People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary.… — Ethan Gilsdorf Copy Share Image
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic:… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue.… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James Copy Share Image
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development… — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
