[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges…

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just…

— William Hurt

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that…

— David Hume

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

— Christopher Hitchens

For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside…

— Marianne Williamson

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software…

— Anonymous

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

— Julia Quinn

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

— Ingmar Bergman

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

— J. Maarten Troost

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that…

— Stephen Fry

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of…

— John Milton

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to…

— William O. Douglas

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled…

— Lauren Oliver

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the…

— Jeremy Bentham

How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's…

— Stephen Fry

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

— Fabien Barthez