Quotes of: Whims Keyword

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

Cat on the Money

What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

What Shall We Defend?: Essays And Addresses

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.

Richard Le Gallienne

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Robert E. Howard

If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

Steve Stockman

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

Richard Roeper

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Jami Attenberg

Worthiness should not be defined by the whims of magic weapons. Rise, my son, and let the hammer be damned. Rise and remember the hero that you are.

Jason Aaron

Trust your instincts above all else. They are byproducts of natural laws and do not sway to your whims, worries and wonders.

Glenn A. Maltais

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

Ursula: Now I am the ruler of all the ocean! The waves obey my every whim!

The Little Mermaid

There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

Jennifer Hale

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Confessor

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Margaret Atwood

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.

C. S. Forester

It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

Tim Allen

We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous or deranged or deluded that they can snuff out the life of innocents on a whim.

Gregorio Sablan

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, m...

Kabir Bedi

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 marketplace.

Charles Duhigg

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

Elbert Hubbard