Whimsies Quotes & Sayings

But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted manner upon those whimsies. — Daniel Defoe

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this? — Thomas Jefferson

The Crone tires quickly and reaches out for the velvet draperies, sits on the divan, breathing heavily. She's too ancient to have a name any longer. When she coughs you can hear the ages rattling inside her shrunken frame. No human names can cling to her any more- they slip from her dusty shriveled flesh like a young girl's whimsies. — Tom Piccirilli

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life. — Kevin Smith

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries. — Douglas MacArthur

But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as a dream. Nor is it simply reporting with the names changed. It is an amalgam of experience, education, reading, insight, analysis, conversations, observation, and conscious research. — Helen Benedict

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. — Mac Thornberry

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are. — T.K. Naliaka

Trent has kept his promise. He makes me smile every day. — K.A. Tucker

It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what we load into our shopping carts or farmers'-market bags. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Let passion drive your profession. — Oprah Winfrey

Then don't fall." He caught her close and offered a teasing smile. "Trip a
little and I'll catch you. — Day Leclaire

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square. — David Wilkerson

You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth. — Robin Jones Gunn

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later. — Arthur Koestler

Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when you see the stunts in the movie, you realize it could've been a lady in a poncho. — Charlie Sheen

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law. — Barack Obama

Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy. — Donna Augustine

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon. — Julius Erving

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says. — Sigmund Freud

I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure. — Bella Thorne

Tendrils like spreading neath its lurid world,
Sprouting rooted whimsies all the way they-
Enchanted living hues, such with splendor bold,
And ornate jeweled minds domed Abbey.

When I Live With Fancy — Nithin Purple

I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit. — Erma Bombeck

I might kiss you. I might be bad at it. That's not possible. — Nicholas Sparks