No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
“I wish he would draw a rope so I could pull it from my flesh and hang him with it. I'm sure… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“Heartaches are like giving a rope to hang onto only to take it away the next moment.” — Isha Choudhury Copy Share Image
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength… — Sakae Menda Copy Share Image
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't… — James Vance Copy Share Image
What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens… — Billy Horschel Copy Share Image
If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw… — Jerry Reed Copy Share Image
If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one. — Max Gunther Copy Share Image
“I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught” — Pascale Petit Copy Share Image
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's best to sit back and watch others hang themselves with their own rope. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Life is like a rope he who gives it strong knots, climbs higher towards the success and he who takes it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain…The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder,… — Paula Yates Copy Share Image
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — John Dall Copy Share Image
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers… — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
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