Whimsies Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. God is faithful even when his children are not.

Max Lucado

#9. What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

John Corigliano

#10. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today, and how it has changed along the way. The word 'nice' is a positive word today, but hundreds of years ago, it meant 'stupid.'

Anu Garg

#11. Get away from me, you wicked treat devil."
She laughs. "Wicked treat devil? Wow. You can do better than that."
"Evil dessert demon?"
"Still lame."
"Chocolate temptress of salty death."
"Now you're just reaching.

Chelsea Fine

#12. Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Gene Wolfe

#13. There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.

Joel Sartore

#14. Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience.

Rex Stout

#15. He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Roger L'Estrange

#16. I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

Dave Chappelle

#17. Maybe you entertain me." He says with supreme confidence as if he's in control of the situation. "Like a monkey with an attitude and a pair of scissors." -Raffe

Susan Ee

#18. I cannot agree with those who say that they have 'new truth' to teach. The two words seem to me to contradict each other; that
which is new is not true. It is the old that is true, for truth is as old as God himself.

Charles Spurgeon