Rope Quotes

396 Rope quotes by 326 unique authors

I am the beast at the end of the rope. — Sarah Kane
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's… — Paula McLain
He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck… — Patrick Rothfuss
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless… — Lauren Oliver
Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't take a rope… — Rick Riordan
Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed you honey from… — Lisa Kleypas
Man, you’re a regular Bonnie Parker.” “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” Jesse found that hysterical. “Did Willie say… — Ruta Sepetys
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. — Khaled Hosseini
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake. — Mark Twain
Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember… — Corrie Ten Boom
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let… — Samuel Johnson
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde
If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out,… — Fred Rogers
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. — Richard P. Feynman
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake.… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope… — Kevin Barry
I love the UFC. I love it. If they had had that back when I was coming up, in 1966, it would have been my… — George Foreman
When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when… — Anna Popplewell
I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took… — Jesse Plemons
I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of… — Philippe Petit
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat… — Philippe Petit
You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small… — Paula Yates
I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to… — Lauren Oliver
What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give… — P.J. O'Rourke

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