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I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving – and who is dreaming at this moment as I am speaking to you. When he dreams, I awake to life; when he awakes, my existence vanishes. I am a whim of his inspiration, a creation of his mind, a visitor in his nightly fantasies.

Giovanni Papini

This is a whim of the president to change the position of the horse on our national coat of arms just because his daughter asked him to.

Oscar Perez

I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.

Mary Reynolds

One side believes prices are established by supply and demand, ... The other believes prices are the result of conspiracy, whim or production costs.

Jerry Taylor

We used it to convince our family and friends we weren't crazy, that this wasn't just a whim.

Didi Chadran

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

Annie Dillard

Nice try. I know that those guys can get in and out of appointments at a whim so he can come out and address those people that voted him into office.

Alex Segura

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

Jim Mccann

It's not like the board acted on a whim. We need to protect the public interest.

Bruce Harris

I am not working at random or just on a whim. Our movement has a deep spiritual origin. It came into being at this particular time by a mandate of God. I have a divine guiding light. Even though many people think I am just doing things my own way, there is no such thing as my own way.

Sun Myung Moon

It wasn't our preference and he had such a good attitude. It wasn't just a whim. This was a long term goal of his.

David Wagler

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

James Reston

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Henry Fielding

I met Sam on a whim. I handed him a flyer and he attached himself to this.

Guy Perotti

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

Kylie Minogue

With the physical trade still quiet because of the summer slowdown, the markets seem to be at the whim of the funds, so more exogenous issues such as the equities, oil, bonds and the dollar, or any other event that impacts the funds, needs to be watched closely.

William Adams

A judge's decision is to be to be fair, impartial and not according to a whim or fear of the latest opinion poll.

Louis Butler

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Aslan Maskhadov

If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature.

Joe Cook

I find it hard to believe that somebody is going to just, on a whim, throw somebody out.

Joe Kelly

Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

Marian Mcpartland

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

Ludwig Von Mises

Informing property owners whether a proposed use of their land is legal shouldn't be controversial, though this is abhorrent to elitists within the environmental community. For over thirty years they've used the ESA to destroy small landowners, largely at their whim. Meanwhile, their stated goal of recovering endangered species never materialized.

David Ridenour

This is a huge victory. My candidacy shows that the river of discontent is real and people are ready for a change. They want a county judge that looks after their interests and does not consider taxpayers as cash cows for every whim of government.

Keith Self

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Edward Abbey

If you have any sense of the importance of such a historical building, it was shocking to see the extent of vandalism. It's hard to believe why people would destroy something on a whim, for fun.

Susan Kane

People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.

John Cheever

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily -- certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

William Allen White

(D.J.) being patient and being the kind of person that wanted to be at Georgia says more for his leadership and the kind of person he is than anything he's done or said on the field. He didn't want to just do something on a whim. He wanted to do things for the right reasons.

Neil Callaway

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

We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.

Bernard Thibault

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

Charles Churchill

We revere the presidency. Any innuendo or any kind of impulse that anyone has to attribute any kind of motivation on the part of these men of honor who have prepared this case for you today on any whim on their part other than to do their constitutional duty should be rebuffed at every conversation.

George Gekas

I have not heard anyone say that they are thinking of defecting to SAP. You don't change your ERP system on a whim.

John Matelski

It wasn't like moving to Ohio. Even though they were grown, I think they had a difficult time. But it was more than just a whim. I think they now realize it was something I had to do.

Eileen Mclane

This is a good, strong list of stores. With all these stores, it speaks to the overall health of the market. These are not stores that just decide on a whim to open, so they are optimistic about the region going forward.

Ed Nakfoor