Arbitrary Quote by John Sterling

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…

— Michael Shannon

“Any judgment born of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is accepted.”

— Sov8840

Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects…

— John Walford

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

— Dan Buettner

I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else…

— Benjamin Bratt

Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards…

— Lori Wilde

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about…

— Anonymous

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with…

— Fernando Pessoa

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

— Saadi