Whim Quotes - Page 6

• Lo que es tan poderoso de los psicodélicos es que actúan a demanda, lo que casi en principio no se puede esperar de una experiencia mística porque eso sería esencialmente el hombre ordenando a Dios al antojo del hombre, que no es como se supone que funciona.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Men, Mystical Experiences

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• As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  People, Actors, Matter

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."

  Judith Butler

  Smart, Exercise, Rights

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Al leer la Historia de las Naciones, encontramos que, como los individuos, tienen sus caprichos y sus peculiaridades, sus temporadas de excitación y temeridad, cuando no les importa lo que hacen. Descubrimos que comunidades enteras fijan repentinamente sus mentes en un objeto y enloquecen en su persecución; que millones de personas se impresionan simultáneamente con un engaño, y corren tras él, hasta que su atención es captada por alguna nueva locura más cautivadora que la primera.

  Charles Mackay

  Correr, leer, enloquecer

  Charles Mackay (1852). "Memorias de extraordinarios delirios populares y de la locura de las multitudes: Ilustradas con numerosos grabados. (2 Thle en 1 vol.). I", p.7

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• Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

  Christopher Morley

  Thinking, Avid, Humanity

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• The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Men, Law, Ideas

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• La esclavitud no es erudita, ni mejoradora; no ama el silbido del ferrocarril; no ama el periódico, el buzón, una universidad, un libro o un predicador que tenga el absurdo capricho de decir lo que piensa; no aumenta la población blanca; no mejora el suelo; todo va a la decadencia.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Libro, Universidad, Pensamiento

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). "Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems", p.325, Bantam Classics

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• Todos creeríamos en Dios si sirviera todos nuestros caprichos. Creer no es tener una vida fácil, ni siquiera la verdad. Creer es algo que se tiene a pesar de todo.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Believe, Belief, Truth Is

  Jessica Shirvington (2015). “The Violet Eden Chapters”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

  Jami Attenberg

  Updates, My Own, Blogs

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• And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Life, Eye, Stones

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• En el Figaro no disfrutamos precisamente de libertad. El Sr. de Latouche, nuestro digno director (¡ah! deberíais conocerlo), siempre está pendiente de nosotros, cortando, podando, bien o mal, imponiéndonos sus caprichos, sus aberraciones, sus fantasías, y tenemos que escribir como él manda.

  George Sand

  Escribir, cortar, libertad

  George Sand (2009). "Cartas de George Sand", p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No two on earth in all things can agree;
  All have some darling singularity;
  Women and men, as well as girls and boys,
  In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys,
  Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things,
  Are but a better kind of toys for kings.
  In things indifferent reason bids us choose,
  Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.

  Charles Churchill

  Girl, Kings, Boys

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.95

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• On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Swings, White, Hatred

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• París, como toda mujer bonita, está sujeta a inexplicables caprichos de belleza y fealdad.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Pretty Woman, Inexplicable

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• La prodigalidad de los millonarios sólo es comparable a su avidez de ganancias. Que algún capricho o pasión se apodere de ellos y el dinero no tiene importancia. De hecho, para estos Croesuses los caprichos y las pasiones son más difíciles de conseguir que el oro.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pasión, codicia, oro

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• Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

  William Kent Krueger

  Hermoso, Libro, Dormir

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• The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

  Marqués de Sade

  Men, Imagination, Pleasure

  Sade (marqués de), Marqués de Sade (1987). "Los 120 días de Sodoma y otros escritos", Grove Pr

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• Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.

  Marcel Proust

  Thoughtful, Power, Thinking

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• La fama es algo ilusorio: hoy está, mañana se ha ido. La masa voluble y superficial eleva a sus héroes a la cima de la aprobación hoy y los arroja al olvido mañana al menor capricho; vítores hoy, silbidos mañana; olvido absoluto en unos meses.

  Henry Miller

  Ánimo, Héroe, Se Fue

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• No dirigimos el gobierno según los caprichos de un individuo, nuestro progreso está impulsado por las reformas, nuestras reformas están impulsadas por las políticas y nuestras políticas están impulsadas por las personas.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Powerful, Government

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• The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

  Theo Paphitis

  Prayer, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: katerussell.co.uk

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• I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

  Jennifer Tipton

  Art, Dirty, People

  Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com

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• My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar would. Following my caterpillar whims, completely unaware of anyone.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Memories, Real

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

  Douglas Adams

  Animal, Borders, Benefits

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Rocks, Years, Giving

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