Whim Quotes
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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. (Quote by - Heywood C. Broun)
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
We are at the whim of the schools. We don't have a place to go on a regular basis. (Quote by - Joe Cavanagh)
The musicians went on strike and did not show up for rehearsals, so they cannot then decide to come back on a whim or without a contract. (Quote by - Mikyl Cordova)
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
There's a little bit of a whim to this. If you see a problem story, everybody gets nervous. The markets create their own momentum one way or the other. (Quote by - Monica Doss)
A judge's decision is to be to be fair, impartial and not according to a whim or fear of the latest opinion poll, (Quote by - Louis Butler)
It wasn't our preference and he had such a good attitude. It wasn't just a whim. This was a long term goal of his. (Quote by - David Wagler)
It was just a whim, ... and I bounced it off my daughter. I thought she'd be against it. Instead she said, 'Dad, you'd have a heck of a good time with it.' She was right. (Quote by - Bob Stone)
We revere the presidency. Any innuendo or any kind of impulse that anyone has to attribute any kind of motivation on the part of these men of honor who have prepared this case for you today on any whim on their part other than to do their constitutional duty should be rebuffed at every conversation, (Quote by - George Gekas)
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. (Quote by - James Reston)
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. (Quote by - Kenneth Chang)
We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation. (Quote by - Bernard Thibault)
sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker. (Quote by - Marian McPartland)
If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature, (Quote by - Joe Cook)
I was going to be an investment banker and got involved with a semipro team there just on a whim. It changed my life. I found out I loved football. (Quote by - Eric Mangini)
Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well. (Quote by - Suzy Pelican)
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. (Quote by - Alice Foote MacDougall)
It really was sort of on a whim, in a way. I sat down to write a mystery for the first time in my life and I couldn't take myself seriously. (Quote by - Steven Cooper)
I find it hard to believe that somebody is going to just, on a whim, throw somebody out. (Quote by - Joe Kelly)
Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements. (Quote by - Kevin Martin)
This is a good, strong list of stores. With all these stores, it speaks to the overall health of the market. These are not stores that just decide on a whim to open, so they are optimistic about the region going forward. (Quote by - Ed Nakfoor)
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. (Quote by - Richard Le Gallienne)
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. (Quote by - Richard Roeper)
He wanted to move to Mount Holly, but he was having problems getting approval there so on a whim one day, he got off at Riverside and he liked it here. (Quote by - Bob Kenney)
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. (Quote by - Aslan Maskhadov)
We used it to convince our family and friends we weren't crazy, that this wasn't just a whim. (Quote by - Didi Chadran)
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim. (Quote by - Kylie Minogue)
The idea is to recognize a business owner has a legitimate need [to ban firearms] rather than a political whim. What we're dealing with in some cases now is politics, and when it comes to a constitutional right, law-abiding citizens should not fall prey to politics. (Quote by - Marion Hammer)
We are a people deeply subservient to the whim of the Catholic Church. Here the cardinal is more powerful than the president. (Quote by - Jorge Fernandez)
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. (Quote by - C. S. Forester)
D.J. being patient and being the kind of person that wanted to be at Georgia says more for his leadership and the kind of person he is than anything he's done or said on the field. He didn't want to just do something on a whim. He wanted to do things for the right reasons. (Quote by - Neil Callaway)
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. (Quote by - Ludwig von Mises)
Nice try. I know that those guys can get in and out of appointments at a whim so he can come out and address those people that voted him into office. (Quote by - Alex Segura)
We'd rather not have that shareholder who says on a whim, '$20 bucks a share seems cheap, I think I'll buy it. (Quote by - Sergey Brin)
I met Sam on a whim. I handed him a flyer and he attached himself to this. (Quote by - Guy Perotti)
If you have any sense of the importance of such a historical building, it was shocking to see the extent of vandalism. It's hard to believe why people would destroy something on a whim, for fun. (Quote by - Susan Kane)
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. (Quote by - Stephen Breyer)
This isn't a whim of hers. She knows this is right, flat out. There is no down side to this, ... This is the right thing to do. (Quote by - Ron Reagan)
Your special memory or investment is far safer properly preserved and hanging on the wall of your home. Custom framing is not done on a whim. People do it to ensure their special memories will be preserved for decades to come. (Quote by - James Miller)
It's not like the board acted on a whim. We need to protect the public interest. (Quote by - Bruce Harris)
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. (Quote by - Bell Hooks)
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 (Quote by - Ingrid Bergman)
If we're no longer a nation governed by the rule of law, then we're not going to win this contest, and that will be the indication that we are now a nation governed at the whim of millions of illegal aliens who spill into our streets and demand mob rule. That is unacceptable. (Quote by - Jim Gilchrist)
I did it on a whim because CNN benched me for a month when they found out I wanted to come [to Fox] to work, (Quote by - Greta Van Susteren)
My wife has a whim of iron (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
We were exposing ourselves to the whim of the doctors in terms of prescribing the most expensive medications. (Quote by - Richard Rosenblatt)
We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun. (Quote by - Jim McCann)
It started in January 1998 on a total whim. I didn't want to write another book. I wanted to do something fun on the Web to relax. (Quote by - Marshall Brain)
This is a whim of the president to change the position of the horse on our national coat of arms just because his daughter asked him to. (Quote by - Oscar Perez)
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. (Quote by - Rachel Hunter)
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. (Quote by - Henry M. Morris)
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
We are totally at the whim of Mr. Starr, and whenever he decides to yank us back here, I guess we'll be here. (Quote by - Jo Marsh)
We ask lots of questions to see if the purchaser is capable of taking care of a puppy, we ask if they have other pets at home, where they're going to keep the puppy, if their landlord allows pets, why they want to get a puppy. We want to make sure they're not buying the puppy on a spontaneous whim. (Quote by - Bobbi Benedetti)
This is a huge victory. My candidacy shows that the river of discontent is real and people are ready for a change. They want a county judge that looks after their interests and does not consider taxpayers as cash cows for every whim of government. (Quote by - Keith Self)
I have not heard anyone say that they are thinking of defecting to SAP. You don't change your ERP system on a whim. (Quote by - John Matelski)
One side believes prices are established by supply and demand, ... The other believes prices are the result of conspiracy, whim or production costs. (Quote by - Jerry Taylor)
With the physical trade still quiet because of the summer slowdown, the markets seem to be at the whim of the funds, so more exogenous issues such as the equities, oil, bonds and the dollar, or any other event that impacts the funds, needs to be watched closely, (Quote by - William Adams)
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
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. (Quote by - Joan Van Ark)
HIPs should reduce the number of aborted sales, where vendors put their property on the market almost at a whim because it doesn't cost them anything. (Quote by - Brian Murphy)
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
You're never going to have permanent jobs if you're depending on the whim of viewers for the success or failure of a TV show. (Quote by - Lowell Kalapa)
It wasn't like moving to Ohio. Even though they were grown, I think they had a difficult time. But it was more than just a whim. I think they now realize it was something I had to do. (Quote by - Eileen McLane)
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim (Quote by - James Reston)
