Arbitrary Quotes

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

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

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

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

All colours are arbitrary.

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.

A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.

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

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

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.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.