Quotes About Whim

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

Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.

Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim.

I adore storms. I love the raw power of the spectacle: Hydraulics! Voltage! Percussion! Mother Nature has dominion and everyone awaits her whim.

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

It's natural, at first, to resist this idea, as it's undoubtedly easier to continue to allow the twin forces of internal whim and external requests to drive your schedule. But you must overcome this distrust of structure if you want to approach your true potential as someone who creates things that matter.

The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.

When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

because they want to make sure it is available if they decide they want to use it on a whim.

Guilt was—it was the agony of spirit that made every day bleak. The fear that you might not live up to the cost of your survival—that you might not, somehow, justify the whim of fate that let Death miss you and take so many around you.

We no longer need fur for warmth and protection. There are plenty of textiles that provide that today. It's pure whim and vanity to choose to wear fur. It shows a level of ignorance or lack of concern that reflects poorly on the wearer.

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

At what point," he asked, "does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There is merely what happened, what is now happening and what will one day happen. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit – we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us. Gravity has a hand. Bear in mind trapdoors. We fall in love, yes? Tumble, in fact. Is it choice? Enough said.

Logic only gives man what he needs," he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants.

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; Some thought, much whim, and all contradiction.

And so what do dogs want? They want what they want when they want it. Just like us.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

He paused, then, on a whim, arranged the unconscious Falleen in an undignified postion

There was no more happiness. But under the misery, there was hope. That the name brimstone had given her was more than a whim. That this was not the end.