Whim Quotes - Page 8

• You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Ties, Insane, Jace

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• When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reflection, Views, Cities

  "Small Gods". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-for a time- in check, so as to drive her at his whim.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Animal, Choices, Feelings

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.3795, Dell

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• On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

  Jim Carroll

  Loyalty, Watches, Body

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Christian, Islamic, Law

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

  Barbara Mertz

  Husband, Independent, Intelligent

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• All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fear And Loathing, Energy, Flow

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.95, Vintage

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• History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

  Michel Faber

  Dresses, Way, Strange

  "The Crimson Petal and the White". Book by Michel Faber (Episode ten), www.theguardian.com. 2002.

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• One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Animal, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.185, Wordsworth Editions

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• I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

  Marquis de Sade

  Yield, Universe

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• Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

  Philippa Gregory

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Philippa Gregory (2007). “The Other Boleyn Girl: A Novel”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

  Karen Maitland

  Blessed, Men, Waiting

  Karen Maitland (2011). “The Gallows Curse”, p.126, Penguin UK

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• A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

  C. S. Forester

  Moving, Home, Novelists

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• Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

  Marian McPartland

  Cat, Guy, Bankers

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• Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Fashion, Law

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• The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Math, Men, Past

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

  Clement Attlee

  Men, Charity, Want

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• I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

  Tim Walker

  Thinking, Reality, People

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• For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

  Bill Gaede

  Love Is, Luxury, Youth

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• I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

  Paddy Considine

  Years, People, Vision

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• 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.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Romance, Emergencies, Toys

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

  David Wong

  Powerful, War, Groups

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.302, Macmillan

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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

  James Bovard

  Taken, Two, Lunch

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• Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Running, Government, Individual

  Mwai Kibaki (2003). “Building a working nation: speeches by H.E. President Mwai Kibaki : December 2002 - July 2003”

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• Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

  George Carlin

  Running, Independent, Media

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