Rope Quotes

396 Rope quotes by 326 unique authors

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
A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back. — Ronald Reagan
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. — Margery Allingham
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess… — David Blaine
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so… — Charles Spurgeon
Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I… — Miles Franklin
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if… — Phil McGraw
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that puzzles me in this game, it is that the longer that you are in the job of prime minister, the… — Pierre Trudeau
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it… — Sean O'Casey
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. — Camille Paglia

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