Quotes About Whims

Philanthropists decide how to spend their money based on their own personal whims, rather than what is best for the social good.

When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.

Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.

A vocation is a noble thing and not to be subverted by the whims of politicians.

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

We don't want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.

A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.

As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it really seem like a good idea to make someone's salary so susceptible to customers' whims on a given day - or whether any customers happen to show up at all?

So much of our lives is surrendered to subordinating ourselves to the needs and whims of others, turning human beings into cash cows rather than independent, well-rounded individuals.

If liberals no longer pride themselves on being the adults in the room, the bulwark against the whims of the mob, our national descent into chaos will be complete.

If religion bends to society's whims, like Peter Tatchell himself, it ceases to be religious, so what's the point?

Long live tomorrow's foolish whims.

Conquer such whims, and endeavor to strengthen your mind. No existence is more contemptible than that, which is embittered by fear.

es decir las órdenes, las costumbres y los caprichos.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. No, it was a question of fairness, a concept that went much deeper. The people upon whom judgment was passed must feel the fairness of it.

She is the virgin-harlot—witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.

Kay was showing this, exaggerating her whims- loving herself through Leila, really.

Y me río de mi propio corazón… y le cumplo sus caprichos.

Anch'io tratto il mio cuoricino come un fanciullo malato: gli è permesso ogni capriccio. Non dirlo in giro, però: c'è gente che me ne farebbe un rimprovero.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

S]ince distance imposed the physical impossibility of intervening directly in their lives, satisfying their desires or whims became a mixture of rarefied or irresponsible gestures, every request seemed light, every task that had to do with them an affectionate habit. I felt miraculously unfettered, as if a difficult job, finally brought to completion, no longer weighed me down