Arbitrary Quote by Edmund White

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

— Stephen Colbert

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

— Joseph Campbell

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

— Michael Behe

“Maybe what I liked most about dancing is the rules. In a world where anything goes, here are solid arbitrary rules.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose…

— Edmund White

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their…

— Ai Weiwei

I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an…

— Gregory David Roberts

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just…

— William Hurt