Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness -… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“ I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday, and the day before, and all the… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
[In] the 21st century, the mainstream can satisfy your every whim. I guess the idea of walking around with groups of people… — Don Letts Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth.… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. — Aslan Maskhadov Copy Share Image
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