Top Arbitrary Quotes Collection

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Image of Farley Mowat
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.
- Farley Mowat
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Lynne Truss
The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
- Lynne Truss
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Kate Chopin
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.
- Kate Chopin
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of William Proxmire
The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
- William Proxmire
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of James R. Schlesinger
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
- James R. Schlesinger
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Wassily Leontief
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.
- Wassily Leontief
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Tibor R. Machan
Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.
- Tibor R. Machan
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Peter J. Carroll
Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.
- Peter J. Carroll
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Bruce Tulgan
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
- Bruce Tulgan
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Ken Wilber
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.
- Ken Wilber
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Moby
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.
- Moby
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Donald A. Norman
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
- Donald A. Norman
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Steve Toltz
There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
- Steve Toltz
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Harold Bloom
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.
- Harold Bloom
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Carl Sagan
All colours are arbitrary.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Francois Rabelais
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
- Francois Rabelais
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Joseph Campbell
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of George Meyer
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
- George Meyer
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Roxane Gay
Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.
- Roxane Gay
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Jean-Baptiste Say
Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.
- Jean-Baptiste Say
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Andrew Bird
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
- Andrew Bird
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Marya Hornbacher
• This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must always be either bigger or smaller than they were at some arbitrary point in time to which all things are compared. The panties that are possibly tighter than they were. When? You can't say when. But you are absolutely positive no question that it's true.
- Marya Hornbacher
Collection: Arbitrary
Image of Johann Kaspar Lavater
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Collection: Arbitrary