Whims Quotes
65 Whims quotes by 60 unique authors
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from…
— Thomas Pynchon
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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
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After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.
— J R Ward
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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
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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
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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
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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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The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From…
— Terry Goodkind
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All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
— Michel Faber
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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting…
— Virginia Woolf
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy…
— Marquis de Sade
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They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the…
— Karen Maitland
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There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is…
— Dan Wells
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There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately, brings numerous other…
— Harun Yahya
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Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind
— Charles Manson
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Like I said before, I don't know how helpful Inez will be, " she explained. "She's very eccentric and controlled by her whims. If she…
— Richelle Mead
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
— Steve Stockman
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Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from dominating the mortgage…
— Charles Duhigg
Who Wrote These Whims Quotes
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