Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
“Either Less is an asshole, or the heart is a capricious thing.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable. — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or… — Natalie Dormer 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
“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
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
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
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
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not… — Stephen Fry 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
