Quotes About Mercurial

My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

Former Gov. Weld is that kind of guy who you can't predict what his next move will be.

I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time.

There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.

prone to sudden mood swings.

I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.

Public opinion is a term describing an ill-defined, mercurial and changeable group of individual judgments. Public opinion is the aggregate result of individual opinions—now uniform, now conflicting—of the men and women who make up society or any group of society. In order to understand public opinion, one must go back to the individual who makes up the group.

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I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

It was a dispute of such gravity—linguists and philologists were known to be mercurial and hold eternal grudges—that

I will say that my style sense is very mercurial. There are days when I love to be all comfy, relaxed in casual wear, and there are days when I go all matching, matching.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth...

It came to him to wonder, though only for a second, why the mercurial Mercurio kept about him such a symbol of order and changeless.

Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

I can be very moody.

I am a very moody person.

I'm supposed to be mercurial! Honey-haired, cello-voiced, mercurial Tellulah, that's me!

Real woman should be capricious.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.