Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully. — Vincent Van Gogh
If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature… — Michael Shannon
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding… — Fred Upton
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in… — Frederick Lenz
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we… — Frederick Lenz
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character. — Anson Mount
I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe,… — Peter Mullan
Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people, pain and hurt… — Joseph Girzone
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that… — Gerhard Richter
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random.… — Gerhard Richter
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my… — Gerhard Richter
No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want… — Julian Baggini
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe
I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and… — Larry Wall
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing… — Tennessee Williams
Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is… — Paul Craig Roberts
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section.… — D. V. Ager
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no… — Laurence Steinberg
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard

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