Quotes of: Whims Keyword

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Aslan Maskhadov

In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or schizoaffective. Back in the 1970s and '80s - when they were all straight depression - we called them "dark nigh...

Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

The After

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

Patricia A. McKillip

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

Charles Churchill

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

James Reston

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

James Reston

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.

Asif Ali Zardari

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

Delta of Venus

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

Afterlife

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

The Truth of the Cross

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Martin Parr

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.

Annie Dillard

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

Why God Doesn't Exist

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 the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

Lou Ferrigno

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

bell hooks

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

Caroline Knapp

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Christine Pelosi

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