As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time. — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
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… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly,… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you… — Crispian Mills Copy Share Image
The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Copy Share Image
As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I… — Jennifer Hale Copy Share Image
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims.… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
