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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. -- John Cheever
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. -- Benjamin Disraeli
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. -- Jonathan Swift
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. -- Barbara Tuchman
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. -- George Ryan
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. -- William Hazlitt
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. -- Paulo Coelho
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. -- Madeleine de Scudery
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. -- Fernand Braudel
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me. -- Fabien Barthez
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
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -- Fred Brooks
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- John Milton
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason. -- Alexandre Dumas
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard -- William Hurt
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that's not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain? -- Stephen Fry
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation 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. -- Richard Dawkins
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both. -- James Randi
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God. -- Marianne Williamson
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices. -- Richard Bach
You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game. -- Pierce Brosnan
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
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. -- Karen Russell
Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle. -- Natalie Dormer
I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales. -- Julie Kagawa
My daughter is a very adventurous eater. I'm not the guy who sits around lamenting that all my kid will eat it is Tater Tots and chicken nuggets. With my kid, it's more a capricious and whimsical decision-making. -- Adam Mansbach
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. -- William Hurt
April's rare capricious loveliness. -- Julia Caroline Dorr
fashion is a capricious deity ... -- Mary Russell Mitford
Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite! -- John Kennedy Toole
Real woman should be capricious. -- Christian Dior
Luck is what a capricious man believes in. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... -- Alexander Pushkin
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. -- Saint Augustine
Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is. -- Neil Gaiman
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. -- Gregory Maguire
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The mind is the most capricious of insects ? flitting, fluttering. -- Virginia Woolf
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. -- Christopher Hitchens
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. -- Burton Malkiel
The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem. -- George F. Will
"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable." -- Luther L. Bohanon
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. -- Waverley Root
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. -- J. Maarten Troost
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. -- Christopher Hitchens
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. -- Alberto Manguel
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. -- Julia Quinn
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. -- George Eliot
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. -- Edward Gibbon
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline." -- Barbara Tuchman
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
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
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 -- Jeremy Bentham
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. -- Sam Vaknin
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. -- Iris Origo
The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act. -- E. M. Forster
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. -- George MacDonald
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men. -- Nick Harkaway
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good. -- Lauren Oliver
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it. -- Honore de Balzac
The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up. -- George Sarton
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind. -- Cinda Williams Chima

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