Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no… — Shirley Franklin Copy Share Image
Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply… — T. J. Rodgers Copy Share Image
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
