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Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'
Mike Rowe
'Do not rely solely on your enthusiasm, yet never let it go astray; for that is the aphorism I tend to preach.'
2.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is an ever-shifting vapour, perpetually distinct but always familiar.
3.
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
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O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable
William Shakespeare
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All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.
Venerable Bede
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Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
Slash
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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
Anthony Trollope
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If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.
Richard D. Wolff
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Tommy Shaw
15.
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks
16.
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
17.
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
Freida Pinto
18.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
20.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
Marilyn Monroe
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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
Tom Brokaw
24.
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
Johnny Vegas
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.
Hannah Arendt
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
Virgil
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For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Mason Cooley
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
Lance Bass
33.
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
Ali Smith
34.
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.
Nicholson Baker
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I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
Charlie Hunter
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I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
Plutarch
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If Party of Five hadnt done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if Time of Your Life doesnt do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.
Frederick Rolfe
40.
Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.
Brian Jacques
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Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.
Jean de la Bruyere
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This is a very fickle and faithless generation.
William Kidd
44.
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
Joyce Meyer
45.
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
Matthew Henry
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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
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The most fundamental seems fickle.
Laozi
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It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.
Jeff Lindsay
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Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.
Mason Cooley