The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.
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Related You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who know... OSWALD CHAMBERS If you're confused about what to do, it's a sign that your enemy is winning. TOBA BETA Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER The way this thing is built right now, we'll have played five different games against five different... DAVE JOERGER Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. ~WALT DISNEY Don’t we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody ... DAN PEARCE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, w... VINCENT BUGLIOSI Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit... GERMANY KENT And for them are whips of iron. QURAN Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do! JOHN PETERS When I know what to do, everything is so easy. LORRIN L. LEE I'm in three videos that have six nominations, ... But I was just a tool. The [videos] that got the ... ERIC ROBERTS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you always do what you've always done , then you'll always get what you always got . . .and while... TONY NCIS Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I... LYDIA M. CHILD To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what t... ERIC HOFFER We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do. TAYLOR LAUTNER Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've... BETH BROOKE Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What you do, say, and have reveal who you are. LORRIN L. LEE Something needs to be done and they have gone after the best British coach in the country, someone w... DENIS BETTS When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out. JEFFREY FRY Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world! SHIRO AMANO Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN What we tried to do in the second half was pick up the pace. The more we tried to go get 'em, the wo... KEITH FREEMAN Pens are most dangerous tools, more sharp by odds Than swords, and cut more keen than whips or rods JOHN TAYLOR They need their focus tuned in every once in a while and that's what I was trying to do right there ... BOB YAGGE Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to s... VINCENT BUGLIOSI I just told him to keep his head up, put everything in God's hands. If you do what you've got to do,... CORY BOYD Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. JOHN RUSKIN That's the kind of move you make that tells the players you've got the [guts] to do what you think i... TONY LA RUSSA If someone tells you that your not beautiful, well that just means that they are stupid and they don... CECE JACKSON Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You d... RAY BRADBURY Learn as you go!
Don't think you have to learn everything, in order to do anything.
The best knowled... WILLIAM MERRICK I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you ha... J.D. SALINGER Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to re... DR. JEFFREY BORENSTEIN We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death.... TERRY PRATCHETT If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. GEORGE ORWELL Whips and chains belong in the bedroom, not the circus. AMANDAH POVILITUS Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert. LARA BIYUTS If that's something they want me to do, you've got to do what they want you to do. I really enjoy ca... ERIC MUNSON Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've g... BENJAMIN HOFF Several of them told stories about how Jesus had made them better by not letting them quit or by mak... DAVID REAM The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the vi... IAN SMITH What you do will project you SOTONYE ANGA We've got some guys who yell and scream, but I'm not one of them. I just lead by example; that's wha... BRANDON WALLACE It's something different than what we normally see and something difficult to prepare for in one wee... JIMMYE LAYCOCK If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... We've just got to do what we do best. HUGH FOUNTAIN The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came t... STELLAN SKARSGARD I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do. DYLAN PENN Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips. JOHN CANDY Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear GEORGE ORWELL All A.B. needs to do is keep on doing what he's doing. Everybody has to raise their level of play, n... JOE HORN Ongea unachoweza kutenda. ENOCK MAREGESI They just wanted to make her birthday special. This is what Chelsea wanted to do. MARSHA BERRY WHY YOU DO, is more important than WHAT YOU DO. RODNEY LOVELL Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start busines... KEVIN J. DONALDSON The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON We got it right back when we called a timeout. He (coach Terry Posey) just told us to take it slow, ... COURTNEY FORTSON Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells y... HAILEY BALDWIN While our customers' needs are met online by the people who do it better than anyone else, we will p... GREG JOSEFOWICZ I don't know what's around the corner for the US. I'm hopeful it'll not be what we deserve. BOBBY W. MILLER I don't like when people live their life like a text book. 'This is what you're supposed to do, this... STEVEN MONACO We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got t... ROBERT DUVALL Something's got to move. The outcome becomes worse for the state the longer it's put off. This is th... HOLLY ARMSTRONG Nothing whips my blood like verse. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago... JESS ROW You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? BERNADETTE PETERS The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans i... IAN SMITH I told Coach that my mom and them were here. They got here late. I saw them come in and I had to do ... BRIAN KEMP I don't think these kids understand how important every possession is. We got the game won, and we d... DAVID PEAVY I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I told the players to remember how it feels (to lose). I told them, 'I'd rather feel like this now t... SCOTT BOWEN For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to ... MARTIN BUBER For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to ... MARTIN BUBER Do what you love doing. JULIANNA MARGULIES I told the girls it can't get any worse, and we've got nothing to do but look forward in the second ... DENNIS KOESTER Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th... MARIA BARTIROMO Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong... WILL ROGERS Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and,... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN They have about the same number of plays we do. We've just got to do the right things and step in th... JACK HARRIS If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to the... CHRIS WOODING Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told.... SETH GODIN What are you going to do? We got open looks, but the shots wouldn't fall. If they go in, it's a diff... DUANE POSTUPACK It's something he has to do he's the point guard and the team has to listen to the point guard he te... ADAM HOWARD Everybody's got to do what they've got to do. TOM OSBORNE Happiness is not about what you do, it's about how you do what you do. ROEL VAN SLEEUWEN You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What h... JIM ROHN You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough ... ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA I heard that roar. What? They got beat by Miami, right? Oh man. I told you anybody can get beat by a... CEDRIC SIMMONS
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It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. 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They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT