Whim Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
— Richard Savage
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
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
What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.
— Denham Sutcliffe
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
