Capricious Quotes

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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god.… — China Mieville
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that… — Lauren Oliver
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof… — Tom Robbins
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. — Julia Quinn
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know… — Virginia Woolf
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of… — Chinua Achebe
Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite! — John Kennedy Toole
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. — Christopher Hitchens
You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right… — John Ajvide Lindqvist
The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless,… — David Geffen
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false… — James Randi
April's rare capricious loveliness. — Julia Caroline Dorr
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing — Madeleine de Scudery
I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the… — Dennis Miller

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