Whim Quotes

201 Whim quotes by 180 unique authors

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to… — Ravi Zacharias
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to… — Ayn Rand
Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been… — Bill Hybels
We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and… — Ingmar Bergman
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a… — Evelyn Waugh
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they… — Peter Drucker
What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the… — William Rehnquist
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim,… — Charles Spurgeon
Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people… — George Carlin
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a… — Richard Le Gallienne
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous… — Kit Williams
You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a… — Pauline Gower
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the… — Chiang Kai-shek
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims… — George Jean Nathan
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our… — Oscar Wilde
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made… — Anatole France
The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. — James Boswell
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal,… — Pietro Aretino
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career. — Lance Reddick
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew… — Ving Rhames
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they… — William Hazlitt
Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against… — Lou Ferrigno

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