#whim

My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met. Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart. We escape to imagination to survive our fate. There, midst flights of whimsy we find one another. Companionship quells our loneliness. We create fables and tales, shields against a harsh existence. We must battle animals and humans of prey. Together, he, the future abolitionist-publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, and I vault from glory-laden adventures to tragedy and then to triumph. I am Raji Singh and this is my story. ↗

— Raji Singh

#fiction #humor #satire #short-story #whimsey

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

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life #whimsy #inspirational

I do things on a whim. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#i do #things #whim

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

#been #commercials #doing #got #guest

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#moment #nobody #political #subject #wants

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

— Aslan Maskhadov

#condition #ethnic #group #independence #necessary

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. ↗

— Roger McGough

#i wish #now #used #whimsical #wish

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers. ↗