Quotes for All
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom. Gabriela Mistral
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, … Read more
War is such a peculiar thing – inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning – even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops Errol Morris
When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place – they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it’s not. Emma Stone
I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive. Ellie Goulding
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
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. Elbert Hubbard
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. Edward Abbey
Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, … Read more
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi