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Quotes About Fickleness

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
~ Jon Stewart
Es curioso cómo las percepciones sobre los demás cambian tan fácilmente de un día para otro.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
How fickle is my young male heart as it avidly jumps from love to love
~ Ben Mitchell
We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign
~ Benjamin Constant
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.
~ Anushka Sharma
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
~ Mary Astell
he's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were.
~ Gillian Flynn
Whims so often end in bankruptcy.
~ Graham Greene
We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify passionately with them and then, if they do something - anything - we dislike, we cast them off.
~ Margo Jefferson
I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.
~ Ornette Coleman
Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
~ Charles Bukowski
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
~ Joseph Addison
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.
~ Eugenio Montale
The Root of evil Avarice, That damn ill-natur'd baneful vice, Was slave to Prodigality, That Noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more. Envy it self, and Vanity Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness In Diet, Furniture, and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel, that turn'd the Trade.
~ Bernard Mandeville
Once in a while, though, he could not help seeing how shallow, fickle, and meaningless all human aspirations are, and how emptily our real impulses contrast with those pompous ideals we profess to hold.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.
~ Hildegard Knef
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire.
~ Max Lucado
There was always another boy, and then another, and another
~ Melissa Dela Cruz
Hollywood is silly sometimes.
~ Lexi Alexander
I wonder if I'll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything... are all my occasional romances to fall to the ground after a month or so, like the jacaranda flowers?
~ Eve Babitz
Other examples of fads are hula hoops, mood rings, flip-up sunglasses, and umbrella-hats.
~ Everett M. Rogers
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
~ John Quincy Adams