"Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not……" — Chinua Achebe

More 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… — Richard Dawkins
• There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution… — 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… — Edward Gibbon
• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse… — P.J. O'Rourke
• Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of… — 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… — Gerald Heaney
• Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how… — Walter Bagehot
• Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an… — 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… — Nick Harkaway

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