The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“The rope has been torn; a knot Can tie it again, but It’s been torn. Perhaps we’ll meet again, but You won’t… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Right, let's go rope shopping. You should buy some rope or cord yourself; it might come in handy. You might need it… — Otsuichi Copy Share Image
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Copy Share Image
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
