Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“All the arbitrary things we need to remember add up to unwitting tyranny” — Don Norman Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“But birthdays are random... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged… — Khaled Hosseini 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
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty 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
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk… — Lucia Perillo 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
• This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must… — Marya Hornbacher 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
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer 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
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
