Whips Quotes - Page 12

• There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but which under the whip of the forces of order and strategies to buy-off sectors of the revolt becomes fragmented.

  Nigel Gibson

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• It seemed to me that John [Taylor] had a good chance of becoming leader: and I was fairly comfortable with that. I respected his judgment. And I also thought to myself that - because I was able to get on with him - I could become his Chief Whip.

  David Trimble

  Leader, Able, Becoming

  Source: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

  Joseph Stalin

  Government, Hands, Secret

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• I am the Democratic Whip of the White House.

  Thomas P. O'Neill III

  White, House, Democratic

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• Eventually, to get through school, I would make good meaningless blobs if I had to. And so they thought I was falling in with them and stuff like that. But on the playground, kids would come up to me and say, "I need three Supermans and a Captain Midnight by four o'clock because I'm going to sell them to somebody else." So I'd take all their lunch money and whip these things out, and they'd have to stick them in their underwear to get the pictures home, because if the teacher ever found out about that.

  Paul Laffoley

  Teacher, Fall, School

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Kyle Busch is going to get his ass whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ass in his motor home or I’m going to come find him and he’s going to have to hold my watch because I’m going to whip his ass. He’s the biggest whining little piece of [expletive] I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

  Kevin Harvick

  Home, Watches, Pieces

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• Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

  Michael Foot

  Thinking, Selected, Chamber

  'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88

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• You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

  Muhammad Ali

  Baby, Kids, Boxing

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.364, Graymalkin Media

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• You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Religious, War, Political Differences

  "The Devil's Advocate". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1952.

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• A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

  B. C. Forbes

  Horse, Business, Men

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• Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Want, Public Speaking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.229

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• I never see the whips niggas be claimin' they drivin,
  I guess 'entertainment' means blatantly lyin'.

  Nas

  Rap, Mean, Hip Hop

  Song: Nasty, Album: Life Is Good, 2012

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• Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Giving, Thousand

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• Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Pain, Moving, Cracks

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• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Stars, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree.

  Howell Davis

  Hands, Pirate, Three

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• The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

  Robert Burns

  Fear, Order, Hell

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.70

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• If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Forget, Ifs

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• A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

  Gary Hamel

  Leader, Done, Able

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• ... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Prayer, Grief, Tired

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• The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Political, Selfishness

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• Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Investing, Want, Next

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• There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Revenge, Father

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• You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

  Louise Erdrich

  Hurt, Years, People

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• The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strong, Men, He Man

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