Whim
The European widgeon.
A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.
A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey.
To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish.
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Whim Quotations
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
Stephen Breyer
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
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
Joan Van Ark
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
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
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
Ludwig von Mises
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
Rachel Hunter
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.
Henry M. Morris
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Richard Roeper
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
Aslan Maskhadov
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
Alice Foote MacDougall
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
Richard Savage
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Whim Translations
whim in Dutch is bevlieging, bui, gril, nuk, kuur
whim in Finnish is oikku
whim in French is caprice
whim in German is Laune
whim in Italian is capriccio
whim in Latin is libido
whim in Spanish is capricho
whim in Swedish is nyck, infall
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