We cannot climb up a rope that is attached only to our own…

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

— Victor Hugo

I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's…

— Corbin Bernsen

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

— Mark Millar

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as…

— Mark Udall

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

— Ronald Reagan

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to…

— Victor Hugo

The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops…

— Francesca Lia Block

Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher…

— Malcolm X

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started.…

— Philippe Petit

Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

— Laurence J. Peter

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a…

— Hsu Yun

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

— Eric Allman