[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that… — David Geffen Copy Share Image
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable. — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or… — Maya Realm Copy Share Image
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present,… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know… — Max Black Copy Share Image
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long.… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people,… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
“[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
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