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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Whim'

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I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
Joan Van Ark, American Actress (1942-  )
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
Stephen Breyer, American Judge (1938-  )
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill, English Poet
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, American Author (1945-  )
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding, English Novelist (1707-1754)
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, English Novelist (1899-1966)
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, English Poet
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks, American Critic (1952-  )
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.
Rachel Hunter, New Zealander Model (1969-  )
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
Alice Foote MacDougall, -
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen Politician (1951-2005)
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist (1881-1973)
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.
Henry M. Morris, American Celebrity (1918-2006)
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston, American Journalist (1909-1995)
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston, American Journalist (1909-1995)
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Richard Roeper, American Critic (1960-  )
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
Richard Savage, English Poet
 
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