Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. — Francine Pascal
Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless — Hugh Laurie
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom… — Arthur Koestler
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. — Khaled Hosseini
She didnâ€™t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made… — Liane Moriarty
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to… — Pope Benedict XVI
Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend,… — Rajneesh
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the… — David Hume
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are… — Judith Martin
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together. — Vint Cerf
There is something so arbitrary about prizes. — Steve Toltz
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part… — Judith Butler
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary. — Alan Arkin
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive… — Sara Harrison
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up… — Edmund White
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government… — Paul Singer
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless… — Levi Woodbury

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