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Quotes About Whips

They were the men with the leather-ribbon whips who sweated up the Pyramids, seasoning it with other people's salt and other people's cracked hearts. They coursed Europe on the White Horses of the Plague. They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
~ Ray Bradbury
Nevertheless, once the excitement of actually being in the House had subsided, he experienced swift disillusionment. The hardly fought election had put him in the limelight, now he was down in the rut, a mere insignificant unit of the rank and file, subservient to the party whips, and kept in his place. It was not easy here to rise out of obscurity.
~ Agatha Christie
We were filming in America and I noticed we were casting shadows like Walnut Whips! The sensible thing to do was go on a diet, so we started rewriting recipes and we're better cooks because of it.
~ Dave Myers
here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.
~ David Graeber
Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.
~ Roald Dahl
For whipping cream, of course. How can you whip cream without whips?
~ Roald Dahl
How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!
~ Roald Dahl
They streaked past a black door. STOREROOM NUMBER 71, it said on it. WHIPS - ALL SHAPES AN SIZES. Whips!' cried Veruca Salt. What on earth do you use whips for? For whipping cream of course, said Wonka. How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night! Row on please!
~ Roald Dahl
But when the fire was about to quench, their children came with whips and stones then they began to whip and stone our heads; when they left that, they began to climb on our heads and jump from one to the second; after that they started to spit, make urine and pass excreta on our heads; but when the eagle saw that they wanted to nail our heads, then it drove all of them away from the field with its beak.
~ Amos Tutuola
Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!
~ Roald
Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.
~ Garth Nix
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
~ John Ruskin
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
~ Ayn Rand
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.
~ Harold MacMillan
The wind whipped up and I listened for ship sails snapping in the harbor cross the road, a place I'd smelled on the breeze, but never seen. The sails would go off like whips cracking and all us would listen to see was it some slave getting flogged in a neighbor-yard or was it ships making ready to leave. You found out when the screams started up or not.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.
~ Napoleon Hill
You see how many whips and things there are here. Our horses are very, very naughty.
~ Thomas Pynchon
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown, leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting?
~ Suzanne Collins
to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you – that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think.
~ Charles Bukowski
The clever performing dogs pick up the whips and teach a whole new range of tricks to the rest and the whole performance starts again. C'est la bloody vie. Humorous really.
~ Jennifer Johnston
And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
~ Bible
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
~ Anna Wickham
Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
~ Nicholas Rowe