Whim Quotes

201 Whim quotes by 180 unique authors

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get… — C S Forester
Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the… — Marian McPartland
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. — Aslan Maskhadov
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed… — Pope Pius XII
Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals. — Mwai Kibaki
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he… — Rex Harrison
Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software… — John Robbins
War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are… — David Wong
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain… — James Bovard
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and… — Madeleine Vionnet
I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as… — Tim Walker
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they… — Muriel Barbery
For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury. — Bill Gaede
I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's… — Paddy Considine
New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers come… — Charlie LeDuff
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based… — Bill Moyers
If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Juan Gabriel
Dont throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you,… — Alex Gaskarth
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used.… — Richard M. Weaver
Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it. — Marc Jacobs
God loves us too much to indulge our every whim. — Max Lucado
Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is… — Duane Michals
Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only… — Michael Leunig

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