Whim Quotes

201 quotes by 184 authors

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 that thing. — Margaret Atwood
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… — Nadia Boulanger
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone… — Maya Angelou
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God. — Stephen Hawking
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the… — William Hazlitt
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the… — Ayn Rand
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not… — Mother Teresa
How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few… — Jonathan Lethem
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it… — Rudolph Rummel
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. — Ayn Rand
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality… — Mark Twain
Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either… — Noel 'Razor' Smith
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. — Ludwig von Mises
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it… — Elwyn Brooks White
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William… — Lewis H. Lapham

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