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Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals. — Mwai Kibaki

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him. — Hunter S. Thompson

Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted. — Jack Vance

Animals shouldn't be hunted and nature shouldn't be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind — Charles Manson

To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less victimized by the whims of whatever impossible fate had brought me here, — Diana Gabaldon

Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men's whims. — Voltaire

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate. — J.R. Ward

I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men. — Karen Maitland

And into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon. — Edgar Allan Poe

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. — Roberto Bolano

Because love, after all, was eternal and not subject to the whims of death. — J.R. Ward

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women. — Michel Faber

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns. — Gail Godwin

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. — Frank Herbert

Give me a fight with a simple demon or devil any day, over the whims of a pissed off Fae Queen. — Yasmine Galenorn

Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake. — Thomas L. Friedman

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. — Thomas Merton

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied. — Jennifer Tipton

Worthiness should not be defined by the whims of magic weapons. Rise, my son, and let the hammer be damned. Rise and remember the hero that you are. — Jason Aaron

For she was a creature of odd whims and unsatisfied tendencies. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm a sucker for curiosity's whims.
Does that make me a cat person? — Richelle E. Goodrich

This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men. — Leot Felton

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven. — Narendra Modi

Integrity does not consist of loyalty to ones subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles — Ayn Rand

If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. — Steve Stockman

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will. — Marquis De Sade

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims. — Annalee Newitz

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

Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above. — George R R Martin

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. — Jane Austen

The whims of youth break all the rules. — Homer

A person will walk through a hundred doors to carry out the whims of the dead, not realizing he is burying himself away from the others. — Michael Ondaatje

A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control. — John Patrick Hickey

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

Dorian's whims are laws to everybody, except himself. — Oscar Wilde

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power. — Ted Cruz

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims. — Martha Moody

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

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

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. — Nadia Boulanger

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand

I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims. — Tatyana K. Varenko

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions. — Frank Herbert

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. — George Jean Nathan

The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims. — Michael Foley

We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity. — Thomas Ligotti

Kay was showing this, exaggerating her whims- loving herself through Leila, really. — Anais Nin

I like to change my clothes as little as possible. I suppose some people would say the same of my ideas, the bank had taught me to be wary of whims. — Graham Greene

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off. — Michael Monroe

We are said to be irrational slaves to our whims and appetites, addicted to sex, smoking, and electronic gadgets. — Anonymous

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Jesus doesn't adjust to us, and He doesn't submit to our whims. We adjust to Jesus and submit to Him. Jesus is King, not an accessory. — Justin Buzzard

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions. — Christine Pelosi

When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem. — Jason Chaffetz