Whim Quotes

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

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.

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.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

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

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

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

My wife has a whim of iron.

Collective will supplants individual whim

The whims of youth break all the rules.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

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

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

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

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

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.

She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.