Quotes About Fickleness

Just look at your mind for a few minutes. You will see that it is like a flea, constantly hopping to and fro. You will see that thoughts arise without any reason, without any connection. Swept along by the chaos of every moment, we are the victims of the fickleness of our mind.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.

Swami Vivekananda says: "Fortune is like a flirt—she will run away from you when you want her, but if you are not interested in her, she will come chasing you.

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Really, it was my fickleness, I sometimes think, that they found unendurable. If I had restricted myself to only one of their sweet girls, and married her, and chewed her neck in private, I suppose I might, like any eccentric cousin, have been made almost welcome among family and friends in the circle of the hearth. But perhaps I misjudge what degree of eccentricity even an Englishman can tolerate.

The love we give is often impetuous, beguiled by superficial things, and if those things alter, it could fade. Familiarity alone can be enough to exhaust our enthusiasm.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.

So many young kids are fickle when it comes to music. There comes a time when you're not cool again.

In the world today, we humans have become more self-absorbed, more tribal and tenacious in holding on to our narrow agendas; we have become consumed by the barrage of information inundating us; we are even more fickle when it comes to leaders.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.

The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Six Observation #1: Boys are moody. Like PMS moody. Observation #2: Boys are fickle. Like Tracy-Dale-Franklin-at-the-MAC-counter fickle. Observation #3: Boys are hard to read. As if we didn't know that already.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

All sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable- they live in the varying outer weather and they inhale it's fickleness

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.