#whim

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#damn #envy #led #never #read

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

#catching #chaos #days #defends #hands

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

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

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

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#cannot #conform #even #fancies #i

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#competing #find #golf #later #masters

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#before #elite #innovation #need #public

They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.." They came back yesterday, they came back home," was the answer. "They came back limping on their feet with their toes turned in so far they nearly turned backward. Every day the last six days I get a telegram, six telegrams from six pigeons--and at last they come home. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#home

Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride. ↗

— T.R. Wallace

#romance #whimsy #humor