Whipping Quotations

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you've got a delicious treat.

Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my body.

We're as upset about the high price of gasoline as the customers are. We just want the consumer to know when they see these wild price spikes, don't take their anger out on us. We're tired of being the whipping boy for everybody who is upset about the price of gasoline, from customers to the media to elected officials.

Life has taught me that if someone is being whipped and someone is whipping this person, I am always on the side of those who are being whipped. I've always criticized U.S. foreign policy for forgetting that the United States should defend those who need to be defended. I would object to U.S. policy if it supported Saddam Hussein, and I have always criticized the United States for supporting military regimes in Latin America.

But it's the press perception of him we played with, ... Les isn't a sad, lonely man. Through no fault of his own, he became a whipping boy.

He was on the whole time. He was whipping it around all day and the protection was awesome for him. He just played a terrific game.

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Just whipping that ball around and sharing, guys knocking down threes. Team play is the most important thing to me. I'm not really averaging a lot of points. But at the same time, we're winning, I'm happy, my assists are up. It's fun when we share the ball and make the extra pass.

I see a lot of parity this year, ... I don't see anyone who'll be a whipping post.

rightwing in India started whipping up negative feelings.

Reason can prevail only when arguments are advanced without the whipping up of sound.

Man, 54 years old, and I've never had a whipping like this in my life.

I wasn't the only one struggling. They made changes that screwed me. I'm not young; I'm not saying you should just give me respect, (but) you can't just whip me around, make me a whipping ball for anyone.

When stately ships are twirled and spun / Like whipping tops and help there's none / And mighty ships ten thousand ton / Go down like lumps of lead.

You always want your team mentally right for an upcoming game. UNA helped us by whipping Delta. I'd be a little bit more worried had they just barely won. But that got our attention. They know they just can't show up and play.

We got to force plays. Normally when a big play occurs ... it's a case of whipping a guy on-one. Be in a position to win and you just can't let them win on the big ones.

We didn't play well. I know what happened; you all know what happened. You saw it. A good, old-fashioned whipping is what we took.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

We clear so many rights and permissions that something's going to get missed. We've been singled out as a whipping boy.

We got a good whipping tonight. They played harder than us. They played much, much, much smarter than us. Give them all the credit. We took a step backwards tonight.

They're taking oil higher because of the inventory numbers, ... but the thing with oil is that there's a lot of whipping and sawing in the oil pits, a lot of things pushing oil around.

It's like getting a whipping for something you know you didn't do.

It's hard to listen to negative criticism for a week. But it's good to look it in the face and be a man about it. You need a whipping every now and then to let you know you aren't as good you think you are.

Daniel's still whipping me in the running events, though.

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.

It's been done at probably every ski resort or amusement park that's got a chairlift. Kids sometimes get bounced in their chairs and are able to start the cable whipping and it'll whip itself off the towers.

They whipped us. Once the whipping started, I don't think we competed as hard as I would've liked to have seen us - but that was after the whipping started.

He's there to offer expertise, to explain options and to keep explaining until everything is clearly understood. But the patient, sitting on the examining table in a paper gown with the wind whipping around his knees, is the only person in the room with a decision to make. As such, he makes the decision and gives consent based on the information, which includes risks and benefits weighed against his personal values.

If I've got some knowledge about them that people may not know, I can certainly throw it into the mix. They're like, 'Oh man, you just killed that guy. Not only is he sending you to jail, he's whipping you up here on the stage.' A little adding insult to injury.

I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started young and got to grade seven. When I turned 13, everyone started whipping out guitars, looking cool and joining rock bands, so I stopped playing.

Got a good whipping tonight. They played harder than us. They played much, much, much smarter than us. ... They executed, played with discipline, they played hard, they got to the basket, they did what they were coached to do. They have good players, and I can see why they are getting better in a hurry.

For one, it took their crowd out of it some and, two, it gave us a tremendous amount of confidence. Our confidence was a little shaky from (Washington) whipping us on our court.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.