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Quotes About Whip

Why don't you ever whip me? she pouted one night. Because I haven't the time, he snapped at her impatiently. I haven't the time. Don't you know there's a parade going on?
~ Joseph Heller
Be at peace all of you, for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the strange away in the night.
~ James Stephens
Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.
~ Douglas Clegg
I saw him as the supplier of my life. In a dream, in a hole, I saw the great snake of life, devouring its own tail. Life eats life, the image of the snake seemed to tell me. Life devours itself. You are part of this, and so is Gup. The snake is the whip in my father;s hand. The whip is in my hand and reaches from my bloodied back to whip my father's hand. The torturer and the tortured are each playing a part and cannot be without the other.
~ Douglas Clegg
Jason Rafiel: It's up to her now. Thousand of years ago she had a measuring rod, a sword, and a whip. Yes, it was called a scourge. She rode about in a chariot drawn by griffins. Nemesis. Last time I saw her, she was wearing a pink, woolly shawl.
~ Agatha Christie
We live as if nature and nurture were equal parents when the evidence suggests that nature has both the whip hand and the whip.
~ Julian Barnes
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
~ Lucy Liu
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
~ Truman Capote
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
S)lavery could not function without the lubricant of violence. . . The whip accompanied the lives of the enslaved from the moment they entered an Atlantic slave ship to their dying days in slavery.
~ James Walvin
Even the famously unsporty Hitler liked to carry a riding whip in his hand.
~ Jane Thynne
O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.
~ John Webster, The White Devil
O heaven! that such companions thou'dst unfold,And put in every honest hand a whipTo lash the rascals naked through the world.
~ William Shakespeare
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~ Xenophon
And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.
~ Algernon Blackwood
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
~ Emma Goldman
...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.
~ C.S. Lewis
Not with a club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone – A Whip so small you could not see it I've known
~ Emily Dickinson
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip, To haud the wretch in order;
~ Robert Burns
A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, "If you don't whip me, I won't work." He didn't get whipped. He didn't work.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
I've seen what a whip can do,' Jason said suddenly. 'Don't hurt them.' I stared at him. 'You don't strike me as the self-sacrificing kind.' He shrugged. 'We all have our moments.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come and whip him down the street, gently home
~ Donald Justice
I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
~ Harrison Ford