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Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an attempt to peel another putrid skin. — Patti Smith

Love isn't an obedient whim. It's an unruly force. And it answers to no one. — Chelsea Fine

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

They are just a strange whim, kink of nature, deviation that doesn't seem to exist but is encountered every day. — Igor Eliseev

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury. — Bill Gaede

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Winston S. Churchill

He paused, then, on a whim, arranged the unconscious Falleen in an undignified postion — Christie Golden

God's sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it. — R.C. Sproul

Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some — Geraldine Brooks

You left this house whenever you wanted to, and came back at your whim, and you never once thought that your wife would be the one to leave. — Kyung-Sook Shin

News' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim. — Tom Rachman

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them. — Shirley Rousseau Murphy

An hour in her presence, and he was ready to hit his knees, submit to her every whim. — Kelly Moran

Collective will supplants individual whim — Samuel P. Huntington

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. — Caroline Knapp

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. — Charles Churchill

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim. — Clement Attlee

I like to see candidates who are busy finding what they are good at and what they enjoy. I call it being busy with a purpose - WHIM — Garrett Miller

He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid. — Galt Niederhoffer

Stoner said to Finch, I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax. — John Edward Williams

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer. — David Platt

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God. — Stephen Hawking

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim. — Max Lucado

It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife. — Gillian Flynn

The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can't control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling. — Russ Harris

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it. — Marc Jacobs

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. — Bell Hooks

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time. — Jake Gyllenhaal

What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim? — Kresley Cole

But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim. — E.L. James

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street. — Scott Lynch

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers. — Alan Moore

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim. — Michael Keaton

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim. — Kylie Minogue

A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs. — Robert E. Howard

To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim. — Reza Negarestani

I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive. — Ellie Goulding

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim. — Cassandra Clare

she was a stranger to lists, a martyr to panic and whim. — Lissa Evans

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. — Richard Le Gallienne

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further. — Martin Parr

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while — Groucho Marx

If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris. (Jace Wayland) — Cassandra Clare

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. — Ayn Rand

What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim. — Denham Sutcliffe

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. — Ving Rhames

Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment's whim. — Rabindranath Tagore

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. — Aslan Maskhadov

Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium. No more heebie-jeebies. No more whim-whams — Stephen King

For him, I must remember, I am only a whim. — Margaret Atwood

nervously. "I have never dared to concentrate as hard as I can for fear of the damage I might do. I'm to the point where a mere whim is a blockbuster. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below. — Peter Block

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing. — Margaret Atwood

Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see. — Scott Hastie

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. — Henry Fielding

I do things on a whim. — Ruth Wilson

Read at whim! read at whim! — Randall Jarrell

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. — Ludwig Von Mises

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim. — Rachel Hunter

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem — Nick Bantock

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness. — Honore De Balzac

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. — Patricia A. McKillip

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. — Stephen Breyer

Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim. — Thomas Hardy

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you. — Alan Jacobs

All of the best songs happen on a whim. — Diplo

God does not step in and adjust minute details on a whim. — Karen Marie Moning

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart. — Joshua Winning

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. — Hilaire Belloc

Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph. — Anonymous

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers. — Ai-jen Poo

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film. — Michelle Yeoh

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy. — Terry Goodkind

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers
obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. — Edward Abbey

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim. — Mark Z. Danielewski

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. — James Reston

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury. — Asif Ali Zardari

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it. — Crispian Mills

Will is based on activity, whim on passivity. — Erich Fromm

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — Erik Larson

Maybe you're getting tired of existing on the whim of people. — Neil Gaiman

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. — Alice Foote MacDougall

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim. — Jami Attenberg

You should assume that your networks are plagued with malevolent entities ready to unleash their ire on a whim. — Sam Newman

We drift, often on a whim, searching for something to search for. — David Mitchell

with a whim of iron. — Simon R. Green

Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act on whim — John Galavan

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. — William Hazlitt

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield

The whims of youth break all the rules. — Homer

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. — James Boswell

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer. — Daniel Clowes

rules seemed to constantly shift on whim. — Loretta Chase

I did those things because of my lack of control. When you touch me Jack, I completely succumb to you. I give into your every whim. — K.A. Linde