Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must… — Philip Guston
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat
We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional… — Vladimir Putin
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 - then arbitrary… — Gerhard Richter
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is… — Wyndham Lewis
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities. — Frederick Sommer
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. — Bruce Tulgan
[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income. — Lyndon B. Johnson
One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction… — Galileo Galilei
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which… — Henry Adams
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to… — Thomas Sowell
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a… — Marcel Proust
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates… — Donald A. Norman
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional… — Charles Krauthammer
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. — Junot Diaz
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of… — Bob Dylan
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education. — James Dyson
I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself… — Jesse Eisenberg

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