Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they… — Karen Russell 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
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
Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon 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
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
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance… — R. C. Sproul 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
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
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
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
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
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
