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The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
— Waverley Root
The temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
I can only say that friendship should rise above man-made laws, which tend to be capricious by their very nature.
— Tendai Huchu
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
— Gregory Maguire
You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
— Pierce Brosnan
Real woman should be capricious.
— Christian Dior
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
— Benjamin Disraeli
" ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."
— Luther L. Bohanon
Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!
— John Kennedy Toole
The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.
— George F. Will
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
— George Eliot
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
— Madeleine De Scudery
Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
— Robert Galbraith
He imagined fate as a goddess, capricious and fickle, or as a river, which could flood at any moment
— Takashi Hiraide
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
— Fernand Braudel
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
— Edward Gibbon
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
— Daphne Merkin
This is death during wartime and it is capricious as shit.
— Matt Fraction
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
— William Peter Blatty
But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.
— Chelsey Philpot
The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.
— Bernard Cornwell
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
— R.C. Sproul
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
— M. J. Hyland
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes, however, it is better to take risks and play the most capricious, unpredictable move.
— Robert Greene
Fear above all, capricious authority.
— Brian Bennudriti
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
— J. Maarten Troost
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
— Jonathan Swift
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.
— Fabien Barthez
Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare.
— Hugh Howey
Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.
— Charles F. Haanel
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
— Saint Augustine
I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.
— George R R Martin
An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible.
— Sharon Kay Penman
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
— Christopher Hitchens
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman
Life is a capricious bussines.
— Stephen King
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.
— Ingmar Bergman
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
— William Hazlitt
Fashion is a capricious deity ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is.
— Neil Gaiman
Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.
— Anthony Doerr
The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering.
— Virginia Woolf
But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.
— Alexandre Dumas
It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.
— James S.A. Corey
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women's, it fills all the room it finds.
— John Crowne
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
— Alberto Manguel
Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.
— William Gibson
Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming.- Page 184 — Alexandre Dumas
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Luck hadn't smiled on me tonight. Capricious bitch.
— Jennifer Estep
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
— Alexander Pushkin
