Fickle Quotes - Page 7

• Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

  Gayle Forman

  Mistress, Liz, Muse

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.66, Penguin

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• History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

  Rachel Nichols

  Economic, Good And Bad, Recessions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Running, Jesus

  "Searching for God Knows What". Book by Donald Miller, October 13, 2004.

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• To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Past, Other Worlds

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.267, Random House

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• There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.

  Annie Lennox

  Spiritual, People, Recognition

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• One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Children, Liars, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, www.cnn.com. 1532.

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• Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

  J. Lynn

  Sometimes, Enough

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• People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.

  Lacey Mosley

  Self Esteem, Blood, People

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• Glory be to God for dappled things-
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
  For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
  Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough;
  And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
  
  All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
  With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
  He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  Praise him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Life, Sweet, Couple

  "Pied Beauty" l. 7 (written 1877)

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• Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Childhood, Lovers, Unfaithful

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.42, Penguin

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• The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Free Will, Decree

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.966

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• Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Believe, Simple, People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.67, Penguin

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• Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

  J. C. Ryle

  Inspirational Life, Gone, Today

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• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Mean

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

  Robert Boyle

  Beauty, Mind, Age

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• Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

  George Herbert

  Too Much, Praise

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267

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• You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
  Your values blurred, your hearts impure
  And your past life a ruined church--
  But let your poison be your cure.

  Louis MacNeice

  Suicide, Heart, Past

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Doubt, Selfishness, Purpose

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

  George Michael

  Fame, Stills, Values

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

  James Lee Burke

  Fashion, Eye, Companion

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• The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

  Nina Simone

  Pressure, Conviction, Standards

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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• Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Change, Gratitude, Weapons

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• Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

  Alexander Pope

  Reign, Crowns, Fortune

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

  William Kidd

  History, Generations, Faithless

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