Arbitrary Quote by John Quincy Adams

No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to…

— Mohsin Hamid

It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines…

— Maurice Wilkes

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can…

— Rajneesh

No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial…

— John Ramsay McCulloch

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good…

— John Quincy Adams

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