Whim Quotes

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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

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 him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

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 moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

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, but realize that they’ve got their own agendas.

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

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 them at will.

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 the purest ideal.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

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 rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

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, a belfry without a bell.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

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 else's whim or convenience.

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 toy.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

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.

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.

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 escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

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 of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace

My wife has a whim of iron.

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.