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• This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

  Tobsha Learner

  Passion, Sea, Desire

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• Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Affection, Beast

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1450, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Fate shall yield
  To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

  John Milton

  Fate, Yield, Judging

  John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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• It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Believe, Long, People

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• Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Fate, Men

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1984.

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• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  Tamara Tunie

  Blessed, Careers, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• …the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Dream, Spring

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• I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

  Helen Keller

  Philosophical, Eye, Smell

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• ...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Nature, People, Easy

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• I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.

  Moby

  Years, People, Unhappy

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• But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy.

  Luigi Veronelli

  Taken, Wine, Rejection

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• But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

  Phoebe Cary

  Dream, Disappointment, Play

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations - and seen them die, and seen new ones born again - Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Race, Land

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• I came to feel how far above
  All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood,
  All earthly pleasure, all imagined good,
  Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

  John Keats

  Pride, Kissing, Fancy

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.105, Рипол Классик

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• Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Soul, May

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• The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Hate, Care, Pay

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star wishes she could gain weight. And kiss Angelina". featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. December 7, 2006.

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• In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

  Sarah Vowell

  Girl, Beach, Religious

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

  Anne Fadiman

  Responsibility, Writing, Voice

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• Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

  Armando Iannucci

  Eggs, Hens

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• Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Uniforms, Vain

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

  Henry Miller

  Cheer, Hero, Gone

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• All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.

  Radhanath Swami

  Beautiful, Mother, Reality

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• Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust.  We don’t lust after very many things in life.  We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel?  The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country.  To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Passion, Animal

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• I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

  Winston Churchill

  Sunshine, Swimming, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.

  Robbie Savage

  People, Fans, Looks

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