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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Soul
Consistent
Destiny
Capricious
Believes
Chance
The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
Jeff Bridges
Quality
Focus
Fickle
Like
Mistress
Accurate
Manual
Capricious
Makeup is only fun if it's occasional and capricious - just like it's a treat to have an empty day ahead, but it wouldn't be if you were doing 20 years in Parkhurst.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Day
You
Treat
Only
Like
Occasional
Empty
Makeup
Doing
Were
Years
Just
Capricious
Fun
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.
Amor Towles
Nature
Our
Consideration
Complex
Only
Very
Contradictory
Human
Human Beings
Capricious
Beings
Deserve
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Obey
Discipline
Enough
Easy
Habit
Demands
Idiotic
Bureaucratic
Form
Orders
Plain
Capricious
Reasonable
I take good care of my things. I put everything in a bag. I use soap. I put on a cream after training. People think it's capricious. To each his own. Doesn't mean you're more man or less man, more gay or less gay.
Anderson Silva
Good
Gay
You
Man
People
Training
Care
Own
Think
Everything
More
Take
Put
Bag
His
Soap
After
Mean
Cream
Use
Less
Capricious
Each
Things
Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
Edmund Morgan
Government
Late
Consider
Later
States
Embodied
Developments
Along
Ideas
House
Period
House Of Commons
Documents
Because
Were
Debates
American
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Commons
Century
Juxtaposition
Capricious
English
Many
United
Why
United States
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
Love
Dangerous
Thought
Ancient
Tricky
Brothers
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Always
Were
Fey
Stories
Preferred
Disney
Capricious
Who
Creatures
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
Death
Penalty
Machinery
System
Arbitrary
Immoral
Shall
Longer
Because
Death Penalty
Tinker
Capricious
Illinois
Therefore