Whim Quotes

201 Whim quotes by 180 unique authors

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim. — Mark Z. Danielewski
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while — Groucho Marx
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days. — Annie Dillard
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding… — Matthew Scully
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are… — Terry Goodkind
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. — Patricia A. McKillip
Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties… — Jonah Goldberg
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly… — Hermann Hesse
After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate. — J R Ward
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and… — Toni Morrison
It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to… — Alice Hoffman
You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim… — Cassandra Clare
I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as… — Anton Szandor LaVey
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
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
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a… — Diana Gabaldon
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Winston Churchill
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid… — Christopher Moore
Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers. — Alan Moore
To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule… — Darren Shan
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. — Roberto Bolano
On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached… — Jim Carroll
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good,… — Ellen Hopkins
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of… — Barbara Mertz

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