Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel..

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

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary..

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, secon….

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….

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

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth..

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe it….

Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspic….

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

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted..

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a bas….

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions..

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 ours….

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 ….

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 ….

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior..

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary..

Arbitrary government power is being multiplied daily by the now practically unchallenged assumption that wherever there is any problem of any kind to….

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

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it..