She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal
The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering. — Virginia Woolf
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. — Kary Mullis
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. — Benjamin Disraeli
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane. — Alexander Pushkin
The heart of a woman is as capricious as a drop of water on a lotus leaf. — Thai Proverbs
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. — David Hare
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate. — Kurt Tucholsky
All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea. — Venerable Bede
The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable. — Kendrick Lamar
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes. — Anthony Trollope
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. — Bob Dylan
Short Capricious Quotes
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. — Paulo Coelho
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson
Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. — Alice Cary
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. — Madeleine de Scudery
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. — John Cheever
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. — Julia Quinn
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — Harry A. Blackmun
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. — Jonathan Swift
Capricious Image Quotes
Capricious Mind Quotes
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain? — Stephen Fry
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old. — Alexander Hamilton
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds. — John Crowne
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination. — Sarah Fielding
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. — Gregory Maguire
Being Careless Quotes
I never cared, I was careless,
Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless.
Or fear bein' fearless but fearful,
So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful. — Joe Budden
I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen. — Layne Staley
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful. — Tom Robbins
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. — Marcus Aurelius
Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. — Ron Paul
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37 — Beth Moore
When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. — Luis Palau
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. — Mark Twain
Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved. — LeCrae
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Care And Support Quotes
I think I just care about people, and I have a mission to support them to succeed. — Lewis Howes
I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care. — Nicola Sturgeon
If I’m going to use social media, might as well support a cause I care about and spread awareness. — Sadie Sink
To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique. — Steve Waugh
My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support. — Melissa Rivers
The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him. — Taya Kyle
Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill. — J. R. R. Tolkien
If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. — Morrie Schwartz
A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them. — Nelson Mandela
In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care? — Joel Fuhrman
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. — Richard Dawkins
Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures. — Thucydides
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me. — Fabien Barthez
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel
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. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited. — Marcus Aurelius
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. — Sam Vaknin
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 data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both. — James Randi
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 as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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 take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins. — Matt Taibbi
Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite! — John Kennedy Toole
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. — Edward Gibbon
A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of. — R.A. Dickey
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. — Burton Malkiel
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. — Edwin Percy Whipple
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 of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks — Tom Robbins
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. — Alberto Manguel
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 it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
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, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it. — Honore de Balzac
Luck is what a capricious man believes in. — Benjamin Disraeli
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 not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager. — Larry Wall
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them. — Anatole France
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. — Fred Brooks
Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade. — Leonard Read
And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being. — Richard Price
Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception. — Pierre Loti
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it. — George Sand
We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow. — Iris Origo
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