Whims

Now, investors can move in and out of the fund, potentially forcing the locked-in holders of Giftrust accounts to suffer from the short-term whims of others. ❋ Chuck Jaffe (2011)

To give some lower level State Department flunky that power, based on his or her feelings or whims, is just plain wrong. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Omaha headquarters, and no attempt to please the short-term whims of ❋ Unknown (2009)

But to so easily ignore the way such privacy concerns (as part and parcel of fundamental rights of individuals) are formed and to portray them as mere bureaucratic whims is rather misplaced and makes the original poster’s argument, or indeed understanding of the European side of things, largely unconvincing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because I really don’t think the people with power generally think beyond satisfying the short term whims of profit holders and making a crap load of money so they can live their ridiculous lifestyles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this decision, the problem is that when the court begins to look like just another legislature, voting its personal whims, which is what legislatures are supposed to do, in the long-term, I think it at least hurts within the judiciary. ❋ Unknown (2001)

In the sorry record of the history of mankind's ethics-with a few rare, and unsuccessful, exceptions'moralists have regarded ethics as the province of whims, that is: of the irrational. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1961)

His will and his whims are her laws; as he changes, so must she. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

His eccentricities would have been called whims if he had not stuck to them with such constancy. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

Where his whims were his guides, and his will was his god, ❋ Owen Meredith (1861)

One must accept the notion that the whims of human choice in this matter are very much like the enivronmental "whims" prodded the development of species as a whole. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It may be suicide not to listen, but it's completely up to the 'whims' of the dictator. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We often have people who take the same kind of whims, and you have no idea of their obstinacy. ❋ Various (N/A)

PRAETEXTATA VERBA -- he would hint that he could afford to pay for his little whims, meaning, presumably, that a rich man is not to be judged by common standards of propriety. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

It was one of Miss Gertrude's "whims" always to address him formally as ❋ Edward Barnard Lintott (1859)

Careers are short, and Coaches are hired and fired on "whims". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Calcutta, July 7: CPM state secretary Biman Bose today said the Election Commission could not go by the "whims" of any particular person and hold early Assembly polls in Bengal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To Gordon Plumber; It is disingenuous hyperbole to state that social conservatives want to merge church and state to enforce their "whims". on the rest of society. ❋ Unknown (2009)