Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound 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
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior. — Ermanno Bencivenga Copy Share Image
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him… — Daniel H. Hill Copy Share Image
When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we… — Michele Bachmann 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
One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary.… — Moby Copy Share Image
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such… — Cecilia Malmstrom 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
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a… — John Maynard Keynes 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
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no… — Mindy Kaling 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
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals. — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules… — Edmund White 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
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image
Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours. — Ichiro Suzuki 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
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