Quotes About Whim

I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.

Government money only pays for the liberties the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?

Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment's whim.

My problem is that what I like changes from week to week. Even the stuff in my suitcase right now I don't like any more.

Lymond, released, flung his head back and, viewing his winnings, gave them solemn dispensation to descend for the space of the dance. He asked for and obtained some chalk, and set to marking his and Mat's property where the cross was most obvious and the whim most appreciated.

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.

Each man has his fancy.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

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.

Can't a person lie on the floor simply because he wants to and because it suits him?

It was a whim of hers. But Mrs. Madden was a woman of iron whim; and her husband had long ago learned to obey her

We don't plan to be good or bad. We just think, 'What do I want now? I want coffee now. I want the paper now.'

Why? She says no reason. A lark. A whim. Freedom. But there is, of course, no freedom. There are only ancient prophecies that scry the seeds of time and say which will grow and which will not.

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

We're the trained dogs of the spectacle…it's devoured our lives, our art, our dignity. But existence is not determined by the whim of politicians.

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

A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

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

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

She could flunk of no reason at all

The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.