It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Either Less is an asshole, or the heart is a capricious thing.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement,… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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