Quotes About Whim

It must always remain the great curiosity of history—a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism

And, when the whim changes, it is most easy and delightfully disconcerting to play with the respectable and cowardly bourgeois fetishes and to laugh and epigram at the flitting god-ghosts and the debaucheries and follies of wisdom.

lifts up a prophet to-day that it may stone him to-morrow; which clamours for the book everybody else is reading, for no reason under the sun save that everybody else is reading it. This is the class of whim and caprice, of fad and vogue, the unstable, incoherent, mob-mouthed, mob-minded mass, the "monkey-folk," if you please, of these latter days.

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.

Nada tenía sentido en su plan. Pero ¿qué más daba? Muy de vez en cuando, todo el mundo tenía derecho a cometer alguna locura, y ahora era su turno.

a creature of impulse.

The heart knows nothing, sees nothing, but it kicks up a ruckus, throws tantrums to get what it wants.

What can I say, Thanatos? I can't be moved to pity by a god's whim. And you know as well as I do that when a god approaches a mortal, something cruel always happens

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

At some point, you just gotta do whatever strikes your fancy, you'll thank yourself for it later.

Come here, and let me pin them in for you. He arranged them two or three at a time in the bosom of her dress, stepping back now and then to see the effect. You know, he said, taking the pin out of his mouth, a woman ought always to arrange her flowers before her glass. Miriam laughed. She thought flowers ought to be pinned in one's dress without any care. That Paul should take pains to fix her flowers for her was his whim.

It was one of those impulse things

The most constant "whim," historically, has been the disastrous idea just mentioned: that Jesus is here giving laws. For if that is all he is doing, they will certainly be laws that are impossible to keep. The keeping of law turns out to be an inherently self-refuting aim; rather, the inner self must be changed. Trying merely to keep the law is not wholly unlike trying to make an apple tree bear peaches by tying peaches to its branches.

I cannot deny,' I said, 'that nothing will attract a man more than the picture of a beautiful, passionate, cruel, and despotic woman who wantonly changes her favorites without scruple in accordance with her whim—'...

A true fad has little utility beyond its entertainment value. Think of the Mood Ring, the Pet Rock, the Slinky, Silly Putty.

Haven't you ever gotten carried away and done something totally spur of the moment like that?" "Everybody gets carried away from time to time," Tracy told the boy who had carried him away.

A whim did not provide a living.

It was great fun,But it was just one of those things.

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.

But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

Being reactive is like experiencing the world on choppy seas, always at the whim of the weather.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it.

What do you want? Egg in your beer?