Rope Quotes

396 quotes by 326 authors

Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A… — Marc Ian Barasch
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand? — Unknown Author
It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on… — Thomas Jefferson
I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. — Stanley Elkin
We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt. — William Ernest Hocking
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength as if a… — Unknown Author
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. — Jean Toomer
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled… — Stephen Levine
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to… — Louisa May Alcott
I am learning the ropes of captaincy from MS Dhoni. — Unknown Author
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… — Amy Ridenour
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he… — J. Frank Dobie
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few… — Derrick Bell
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a… — Emma Goldman
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like… — Tim DeKay
We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the… — Nikita Khrushchev
A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls. — Grace Kelly
You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on… — Terri Farley
I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair. — Jay-Z

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