Quotes: Whim

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

You can’t take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

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.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

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.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.