Quotes by Arbitrary All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix. Lester Bangs falsification arbitrary book Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. Lewis Mumford novelty arbitrary technology 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 arbitrary mistake people Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. Liz Curtis Higgs hard arbitrary hard-times You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination. Louise Bourgeois arbitrary choices essence 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 vapour arbitrary way Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism . Ludwig von Mises cogs arbitrary government If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. Maria Montessori arbitrary tasks education I read things like theology, and I read about science, Scientific American and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted. Marilynne Robinson arbitrary taken facts All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan arbitrary media perception Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. Martha Beck arbitrary body looks If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end. Martin Zwilling arbitrary team decision I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. Mark Twain arbitrary clothes use • 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 size arbitrary impossible 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. Matt Damon arbitrary decision directors Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. Michael Behe arbitrary used games Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth. Michele Bachmann environmental arbitrary substance 'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing. Moby patterns arbitrary careers 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 exclusion arbitrary kind Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Mortimer Adler arbitrary liberty men «123456789»
