Top 125 Capricious Quotes & Sayings

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I believe there are various aspects of me - sometimes I am very capricious and cannot make up my mind, so I'm unpredictable!

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.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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 they can be happy, generous, and good.

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.

Makeup is only fun if it's occasional and capricious - just like it's a treat to have an empty day ahead, but it wouldn't be if you were doing 20 years in Parkhurst.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

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 and gods of cat's meat men.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

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. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

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.

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.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Real woman should be capricious.

April's rare capricious loveliness.

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

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.

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 to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

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, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.