Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of… — Dan Brown
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.… — Marcus Aurelius
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all… — Martin Heidegger
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their… — Yukio Mishima
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have… — Francoise Sagan
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly… — Douglas Kennedy
â€¢ This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must always be either… — Marya Hornbacher
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick… — Margaret Atwood
Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they… — Will Eisner
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up… — Sylvia Plath
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard… — Russell Brand
There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer… — Libba Bray
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on… — Terry Goodkind
Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't… — Alice Munro
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting… — Jack Vance
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room… — Gloria Steinem
Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help… — Cesar Millan
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant â€˜identityâ€™ (â€˜this is your duty as an Americanâ€™, â€˜you must commit these acts as… — Amartya Sen
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom… — Steven Pinker

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