Quotes and Sayings About Rope
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I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.
-- Ali SmithSource : Ali Smith (2007). “Girl Meets Boy”, p.160, Canongate Books
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Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.
-- Alice Sebold -
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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.
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It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
-- Arthur Baer -
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
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Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
-- Barney Kessel -
All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
-- Billy CollinsSource : Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press
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The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
-- Billy Sunday -
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How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.
-- Bob BurgSource : FaceBook post by Bob Burg from Jan 18, 2014
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Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
-- Brent Weeks -
Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.
-- Catherine Destivelle -
You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.
-- Charles Haughey -
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I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again
-- Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniSource : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2000). “Sister of My Heart”, Anchor
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.
-- Cooper EdensSource : Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.4, Chronicle Books
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Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.
-- Craig Ferguson -
you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.
-- Cynthia Kadohata -
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Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.
-- Dave Gibbons -
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
-- David Blaine -
When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope
-- Dean Koontz -
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Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.
-- Deb Caletti -
If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
-- Denise Chavez