Arbitrary Quotes

• 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.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Believe
  • Progress
  • Deployment

• National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Create
  • Exist
  • Socialism

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

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Teacher
  • Clear
  • Sentences

• For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Color
  • Use

• The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Authority
  • Jumping
  • Improvisation

• When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Culture
  • Role
  • Laws

• King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • World
  • Different
  • Language

• Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Arbitrary
  • Distinctions

• 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.

  

  John Ensign
  • Senior
  • Therapy
  • Medicare

• Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Power

• I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Friend
  • Mom
  • Couple

• That's why my work is now more powerful and less arbitrary, as if seen by another person, and illuminated from outside.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Work
  • Powerful
  • Arbitrary

• The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Important
  • Value
  • Suicide

• We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Respect
  • Links

• We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thought
  • Concept
  • Geometry

• The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Fashion
  • Laws
  • Awkwardness

• 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 trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

  

  William Hurt
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Offensive

• There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Ideas
  • Edges
  • Horizontal

• I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Arbitrary
  • Physicality
  • Wince

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

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Life
  • Seems

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

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Color
  • Order
  • Arbitrary

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

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Human being
  • Arbitrary
  • Nearer

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

  

  William Proxmire
  • Standards
  • Allowance
  • Tainted

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