William Hurt

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

American Actor

Natalie Dormer

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

English Actress

Amor Towles

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

American Novelist

George Ryan

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

American Politician

Barbara W. Tuchman

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

American Historian

M. J. Hyland

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

English Author

Bae Suzy

I believe there are various aspects of me - sometimes I am very capricious and cannot make up my mind, so I'm unpredictable!

South Korean Musician

Pierce Brosnan

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.

Irish Actor

Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

British Statesman

John Cheever

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

American Writer

Think of 'capricious' as sudden changes in mood or plans that you didn't see coming.

Unexpected Shifts

Use 'capricious' like a metaphor to describe weather to understand its unpredictable nature.

Weather Metaphor

'Capricious' often implies a negative view of unpredictability, suggesting inconvenience.

Negative Connotation

'Capricious' can describe actions based on sudden urges rather than thoughtful decisions.

Sudden Whims

'Capricious' indicates a lack of predictable method or a disregard for plans.

Not Methodical

In personal contexts, 'capricious' can describe behavior that may strain relationships.

Impacts Relationships

In legal terms, 'capricious' refers to action lacking consistency, possibly unfair.

Legal Unpredictability

When used legally, 'capricious' often implies that something is done without good reason.

Sign of Unfairness

 And to write a new operating system was not a capricious matter. It wasn't just a matter of tuning up some graphics routines. There were no graphics routines. There were no mouse drivers. So it was a necessity. But in the quarter-century since then, we've seen all of the fundamental supporting technologies go berserk.