Fickle Quotes - Page 5

• I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.

  Randy Lerner

  Football, Fate, Past

  "Paul Lambert to have crisis talks with Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.

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• Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Business, Favour, Television

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Dream, Clothes

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• Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

  John Henry Newman

  Needs, Decay, World

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Works”, p.326

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• To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Atheism, Fierce

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

  Alys Fowler

  Summer, Goodbye, Morning

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• Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.

  Christine de Pizan

  War, Believe, Skills

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• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Son, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.

  Carol Thatcher

  Dog, Cat, Loyal

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• College is a magic time. Yes, youre young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.

  David Sze

  Jobs, Moving, College

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• We faced blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, and of course dangerous snow conditions and vertiginous drops. That's what you get when you're working with fickle mother nature - you start out with a solid plan and it always changes, so you have to evolve and adapt.

  Travis Rice

  Mother, Zero, Snow

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• We live in a country where power changes hands cyclically, because everybody in power screws up at some point, or the voters get fickle and just want a change.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Hands, Screw Ups

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.

  Seth Klarman

  Government, Swings, May

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• Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Laughter, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Thinking, Want

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.52, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans.

  Ishmael Reed

  Believe, Enemy, Asian

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Love Is, Men

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• Good Luck is a giddy maid,
  Fickle and restless as a fawn;
  She smooths your hair; and then the jade
  Kisses you quickly, and is gone.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Luck, Kissing, Hair

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• If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

  Jeff Schultz

  Sports, Jobs, Loss

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• I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Weather, Forever

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

  Mark Hodder

  Winning, Men, Life Is

  "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack". Book by Mark Hodder, www.e-reading.club. April 5, 2010.

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• I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call "good liquidity." The riskiest funding is unsecured wholesale funding. It's the most fickle. Not repo, which the government focused on, too. Unsecured. JPMorgan Chase had almost none of that - virtually zero.

  Jamie Dimon

  Zero, Government, Funding

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  College, Years, Twenties

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir”, p.6, Monsoon Books

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• I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.

  Tara Brown

  Hard Work, Love Is, Loving Someone

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• That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Sex, Romantic Love

  Helen Fisher (2005). “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, p.86, Macmillan

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