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
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
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
[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
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
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the… — B. C. Forbes 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
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites.… — Kenneth Turan 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 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
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
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
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 web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
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