...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
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
“Either Less is an asshole, or the heart is a capricious thing.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine 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
“Now, the soul of Capitola naturally abhorred sentiment. If ever she gave way to serious emotion, she was sure to avenge herself… — E.D.E.N. Southworth 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes 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 these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/edward-gibbon-710_barbarians_but-the-arabs-friendship-was-venal-their_1636211.jpg)
