The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time. — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker… — Annie Dillard 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
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. — Richard Roeper Copy Share Image
When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the… — Daniel Clowes 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
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
We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a… — Nicholas Nixon Copy Share Image
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand 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
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
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources -… — Robert Lipsyte 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
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
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
