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Arbitrary Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.
- According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
- I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince.…
More Arbitrary Quotes
- People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster
- Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
- 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
- Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how… — Martha Beck
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
- The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. — Annie Besant
- I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid… — Anthony Bourdain
- Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. — William S. Burroughs
- Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say. — Felicity Jones
- Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford
- We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men.… — Margaret Fuller
- So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception. — Ron Paul