Fickle Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

  R.A. Dickey

  Organization, People, League

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29,2012.

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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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• 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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