Capricious Quotes

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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way… — Richard Dawkins
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce… — P.J. O'Rourke
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. — John Cheever
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the… — Gerald Heaney
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind… — Walter Bagehot
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying… — William Hurt
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers… — Nick Harkaway
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,… — Richard Bach
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the… — David Hume
She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids. I believe she had really something… — Agatha Christie
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. — Gregory Maguire
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — George Ryan
Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to… — Matt Taibbi
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither… — Rudolf Arnheim
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among… — Henry Van Dyke

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