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
Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded… — Brent Weeks 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
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
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
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow… — Charles Spurgeon 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
“ 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
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
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying.… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Anonymous 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
War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group.… — David Wong 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
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for… — Alice Morse Earle 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
Dont throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory.… — Marian McPartland 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
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
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to… — Hermann Hesse 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
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes… — Pietro Aretino 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
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't… — Nick Kroll 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 dressed the same and saying, "I'm only into ska" or "I'm only into whatever" - is kind of restrictive in the 21st century. I don't know if it's a bad thing that these…” quote by Don Letts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d72/don-letts-51963_21st-century_in-the-21st-century-the-mainstream-can-s_3141766.jpg)
![“Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or…” quote by Clarence Darrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f69/clarence-darrow-1714_action_every-one-knows-that-the-heavenly-bodies_2673181.jpg)
