Quotes about arbitrary
arbitrary habit masters
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. Johann Kaspar Lavater
arbitrary judge thrown
You can only judge him by his accomplishments, not the arbitrary yardsticks thrown around here in the run-up to the presidential campaign.
arbitrary charity certain
Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary. Penn Jillette
arbitrary custom fashion laws outrage today tomorrow transient
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws
arbitrary chinese complicate efforts handling opposes sanctions solve threat
The Chinese government, in handling such complicated international disputes, opposes the arbitrary use of sanctions or the threat of use of sanctions in the efforts to solve the question. It will only complicate the issue.
arbitrary vapour way
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
arbitrary mercy old-testament
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy. Joseph Campbell
arbitrary distribution-of-wealth faults
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. John Maynard Keynes
arbitrary relation scholar
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. Roy Blount, Jr.
arbitrary prize
There is something so arbitrary about prizes. Steve Toltz
arbitrary film length
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. Frank Darabont
arbitrary allowance standards
The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards. William Proxmire
arbitrary ifs
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. William S. Burroughs