Whips Quotes

• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

  Rihanna

  Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Slavery, Restlessness

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• Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.

  John Candy

  Orange, Three, Want

  "Fictional character: Burton Mercer". "The Blues Brothers", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Thinking, Shapes

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• The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

  James M. Cain

  Hands, Cracks

  James M. Cain (2010). “Mildred Pierce”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport.
  Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.

  George Aaron Barton

  Sports, New York, Fighting

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• I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Whips And Chains, Said

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• A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Horse, Shadow

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• Love well, whip well.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Kinky, Wells

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Emergencies, Approval

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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• Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

  Diogenes

  Education, Teacher, School

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.55, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Leader, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• I now know how to walk around properly in my undies. People would keep telling me to push my tits out! I also now know how to use a whip on people without causing bruising.

  Billie Piper

  People, Use, Undies

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• I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Sight, Arrows

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.842, Scholastic Inc.

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• The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Enemy, Ifs

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• Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Desire, Way, Action

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• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
  The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rain, Heart, Meditation

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• Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

  Harold MacMillan

  Mean, Issues, Political

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• The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Done, May

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• Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.

  J. E. B. Stuart

  Believe, Enemy, Battle

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• Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Attitude, Philosophy

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Past, Men, Thinking

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is not at a loss when He moves to bring us back to Himself. He can woo or whip. He can draw or drive. He can work rapidly or slowly, as He pleases. In other words, He is free to be God! And in His own way, at His own pace, He brings us back.

  Tom Wells

  Moving, Loss, Pace

  Tom Wells (1987). “Christian: Take Heart!: Truth about the Christian Life and Its Progress”, Banner of Truth

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