“ 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. ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
“ I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Heywood Broun- Copy
“ The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however , can take us there. ”
- V. S. Naipaul- Copy
“ Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
“ A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
“ The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. ”
- Robert Burchfield- Copy
“ Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
“ Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ”
- Aslan Maskhadov- Copy
“ Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career. ”
- Steve Purcell- Copy
“ This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ”
- James Reston- Copy
“ Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as a man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment - so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment not to escape the consequences. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
“ Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
“ Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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