Rope Quotes - Page 11

• You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

  John Irving

  Thinking, People, Dumb

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• Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Crowds, May, Bread

  Thomas Guthrie (1863). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.23

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• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  Mordecai Richler

  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

  George Herbert

  Long, Waiting

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.293

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• ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Humorous, Holiday

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• Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

  Marc Benioff

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, Able

  "Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: ‘Many CEOs are afraid to get too personal’". Interview with Antony Ha, venturebeat.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

  Heather King

  Mother, Frustration, Guilt

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• One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.

  Katy Perry

  People, Arms, Way

  "Katy Perry 'sore and exhausted' after 'part of me' video" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

  Kevin O'Leary

  Moving, Passion, Cutting

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• You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

  Phil McGraw

  Needs, Stranger

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Eye, Thinking, Scoundrels

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• He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Girl, Queens, Ocean

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.47, Random House

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• Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Men, Bridges

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, William Arrowsmith (1990). “Unmodern Observations”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, Fall, Sun

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Passion, Heart

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

  Nick Hornby

  Ties, Long, People

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• And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.

  Ali Smith

  Rivers, Brave, Stories

  Ali Smith (2007). “Girl Meets Boy”, p.160, Canongate Books

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• Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hair, Skins, Together

  Christopher Paolini (2009). “Eragon and Eldest Omnibus”, p.615, Random House

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• Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

  Mark Udall

  Cutting, Climbing, Numbers

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• Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

  Tom Waits

  Goodbye, Song, Cautionary Tales

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, House, Blame

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Jobs, Fall, Air

  Michael Ondaatje (2017). “In the Skin of a Lion: Picador Classic”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

  Cyril Connolly

  Beach, Children, Home

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• I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Swings, Blood, Voice

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