Quotes by Arbitrary You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. Nate Silver arbitrarychoicesexample A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized. Noam Chomsky arbitrarycreativeneeds Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power? Paul Craig Roberts arbitrarygovernmentwar People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. Paul Auster arbitraryconnectionspeople Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary. Penn Jillette arbitrarycharitycertain 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 wizardschaosarbitrary I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to. Peter Mullan arbitraryleadermilitary Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised. Peter Weir lengtharbitraryties To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else. Philip Guston arbitrarydesiremight Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes. Rahul Gandhi arbitrarydemocracydecision The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. Rebecca West arbitrarydivinegrace Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway. Regina Spektor art-isarbitraryart Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate - in friendship, because you have given each other so much. Rajneesh arbitrarymarriagehypocrite I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue. Richard Diebenkorn arbitraryfacesideas Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government. Richard Salsman arbitrarygovernmentamerica Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities. Robert Bringhurst arbitraryspacechoices Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. Robert Breault arbitrarywishpeople 99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down. Robert M. Pirsig arbitrarymotherbaby The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. Roger L'Estrange tyrantsarbitraryexercise So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception. Ron Paul fetusabortionarbitrary«123456789»
