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. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)

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)