Capricious Mind Quotes

#1. But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.

Alexandre Dumas

#2. Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Jonathan Turley

#3. For nurturing the mind, there's nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few desires, there may still be some capricious whims in your mind, but they'll be few. If you have many desires, there may be some enduring principles in your mind, but they'll be few indeed.

Mencius

#4. The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

Gregory Maguire

#5. Memory is fragile and capricious; each of us remembers and forgets according to what is convenient. The past is a notebook with many leaves on which we jot down our lives with ink that changes according to our state of mind.

Isabel Allende

#6. The stick-thin thing, I'm kind of just like, 'Not gonna do it' and 'I couldn't.'

Jordin Sparks

#7. The mind was a capricious and undisciplined creature. You couldn't always keep it on a lead, and it was for ever dashing off into the undergrowth of the past, digging up some decayed bone of memory, and bringing it back, with tail wagging, to lay it at your feet.

David Lodge

#8. The scriptures, said Paul to Timothy, are given for "correction" and "instruction in righteousness."3 They are likened by the Psalmist to a lamp that illuminates, that lights our path.4 Scriptures beckon, inspire, and edify.

Terryl L. Givens

#9. Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

Robert H. Schuller

#10. In the book of James the first chapter and the fourth verse it talks about letting patience have her perfect work in us. God knows how to make us wait to develop patience in us. Sometimes, the wait can seem unbearable. But it is in this place that He is maturing this fruit of the Spirit.

L. J. Boulding

#11. If prayers can move mountains, certainly it can drive evil spirits away from your house. Let Professional Prayer Warriors help you.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#12. Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

Frank Zappa

#13. We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

Shane Claiborne

#14. I do not understand the capricious lewdness of a sleeping mind.

John Cheever

#15. The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering.

Virginia Woolf

#16. I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.

Sarah Fielding

#17. Telling an individual company to do better is a lot like telling an individual poor person to save more - true and helpful, but not so easy in practice.

Linda Tirado