Capricious Quotes
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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.
We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.
I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.
What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.
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.