Arbitrary Quotes - Page 5

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

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

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

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

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

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

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

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

No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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

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

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.

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.