Democracy is a fickle employer.
I really can't make no wrong moves out here, because just as quick as you can get people to love you, you can get people to hate you.
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
Democracies are at least contemporarily fickle and heartless.
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.
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.
People are always jumping at what's new - who's the next person, who's the hottest thing, or whatever - so to be able to grasp the attention of everybody is difficult.
I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
The people happen to love me. Forgive your friend a little vanity as it's only between ourselves ... You are now ready to tell me that popular fame is a most uncertain thing. You are right. I blush at having valued myself so much upon it.
I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.
Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.
Fashion can be a very fickle lady, especially when it comes to models - fashion likes to turn on its own.
If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.
The fickle populace always change with the prince.
Men are vile inconstant toads.
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.
The human heart is fickle, and therefore peace must, according to the words of the prophet, safeguarded by law and order.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
