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• This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.

  Ian Doescher

  Self, Names, Paradox

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

  Calvin Miller

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.87, InterVarsity Press

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• Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

  Phil McGraw

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Funny, Humor, Blame

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• The music industry is so fickle, there's so many politics. I think a lot of people don't pay attention to the credits or the artistry no more. I think there's so much concern about what's going on right now instead of the actual artistry. But that's how the record business is, but for acting, I got that covered.

  Bow Wow

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Bow Wow No Longer 'Lil'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.cbsnews.com. April 13, 2009.

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• The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Lying, Feel Good, Cameras

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

  Cullen Hightower

  Money, Flirting, Lasting Relationship

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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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• 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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• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  Fergus Henderson

  Ambition, Fate, Luck

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• Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

  Beth Moore

  Song, Writing, Important

  Source: canadianbeats.ca

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• Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

  Mary Beard

  Fate, Media, Library

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• It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Boys, Scratches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

  Virgil

  Women

  Virgil (1978). “Virgil: Georgics ; Aeneid I-VI. Eclogues”

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• Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

  Francis I of France

  Foolish

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