Capricious Quotes

76 quotes by 71 authors

I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and… — Larry Wall
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or… — Brennan Manning
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited… — William Crookes
Luck is what a capricious man believes in. — Benjamin Disraeli
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard,… — Honore de Balzac
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. — Benjamin Disraeli
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. — Jonathan Swift
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. — J. Maarten Troost
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. — Alberto Manguel
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a… — Thomas Jefferson
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. — Paulo Coelho
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character,… — Alexandre Dumas
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless,… — Cinda Williams Chima
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.… — Marcus Aurelius
Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is. — Neil Gaiman
What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it… — Stephenie Meyer

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