Quotes About Capricious

Earlier generations had worshipped malign and capricious spirits. Ours put its faith in an ordered universe.

nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

There's nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.

This animal body, for all its susceptibility and vertigo, remains the primary instrument of all our knowing, as the capricious earth remains our primary cosmos.

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.

Forty years ago, before I went away, you could get the same phlegmatic responses to economic hardship from the Suzi Petkovskis of this world. The same clamped, chain-smoking capacity for endurance, the same grim shrug, as if politics were some kind of massive, capricious weather system you couldn't do anything about. I went back to watching the skyline.

Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.

Hitler had built the National Socialist movement in Germany not on capricious electoral votes, but on people, and they gave him – in the vast majority – their unconditional support to the end.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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.

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

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

Now, the Oracles are finicky and unpredictable

Y es que así es el tiempo cuando maneja los sentimientos: caprichoso, impredecible, a veces un buen compañero y otras, el peor enemigo.

Archangel or hound from hell . . . with Gabriel, it depends on the day.

The muse is a fickle bitch. Woke me at five. You're

Elizabeth had always been capricious. The blue sky of her approval could turn in an instant to lowering black clouds—and back again.

all-good, like the vain, capricious, cruel God of Job? With all of eternity at His disposal, what fiendish new tortures might He not devise? A limited

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

The river was gilded in every ripple with capricious, scintillating light.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.