Whim Quotes

My wife has a whim of iron. (Oliver Herford)
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. View quote
Bell hooks
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist. View quote
Henry M. Morris
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. View quote
Groucho Marx
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy. View quote
Terry Goodkind
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. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. View quote
Edward Abbey
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. View quote
Jean-Georges Noverre
It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. (Alice Foote MacDougall)
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. View quote
Aslan Maskhadov
Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers. View quote
Ai-jen Poo
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim. View quote
Jami Attenberg
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content. View quote
Nick Kroll
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. View quote
Stephen Breyer
Every genus is natural, created as such in the beginning, hence not to be rashly split up or stuck together by whim or according to anyone's theory. View quote
Carl Linnaeus
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. View quote
Robert Moses
But fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath - tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. View quote
William Hazlitt
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment-so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences. View quote
Ayn Rand
Of our studies it is impossible to speak, since they held so slight a connection with anything of the world as living men conceive it. They were of that vaster and more appalling universe of dim entity and consciousness which lies deeper than matter, time, and space, and whose existence we suspect only in certain forms of sleep - those rare dreams beyond dreams which come never to common men, and but once or twice in the lifetime of imaginative men. The cosmos of our waking knowledge, born from such an universe as a bubble is born from the pipe of a jester, touches it only as such a bubble may touch its sardonic source when sucked back by the jester's whim. Men of learning suspect it little and ignore it mostly. Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. One man with Oriental eyes has said that all time and space are relative, and men have laughed. But even that man with Oriental eyes has done no more than suspect.... (H. P. Lovecraft)
.. to challenge the objective nature of being. The notion of being is presented here as relative rather than irrefutable: it is merely a projection of our minds, a whim of our thinking. The mind has the right to establish being wherever it cares to and for as long as it likes. There is no intrinsic difference between being and fantasy. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. View quote
Annie Dillard
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. View quote
Annie Dillard
Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers. View quote
Alan Moore