Rope Quotes - Page 15

• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

  Victor Hugo

  Wind, Together, Twists

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Feet, Guy, Twenties

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• The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

  T Bone Burnett

  Essence, Shows, Walkers

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of ideas about our place in the universe has been a long series of let-downs for those who like to believe we are special.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Ideas, Feet

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• There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

  Ray Kroc

  Pride, Risk, Special

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• One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

  Michael Moore

  Money, Believe, Giving

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• You rarely see one punch kill anybody. I mean, Davey Moore died, the first fight I ever worked for the title, my guy fought and was getting killed, and he hit Davey Moore. Davey Moore went down. There was no bottom rope to it. I then put bottom rope to it, when I got in power. Hit his head. One blow, hit his head and died.

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Mean, Fighting, Blow

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.people.com

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• To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

  William James

  Truth, Self, Giving

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• Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

  Eric Allman

  Funny, Couple, Science

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• But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Character, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• I tied down time with a rope
  but it came back.
  Then
  I put my head in a death bowl
  and my eyes shut up like clams.
  They didn't come back.

  Anne Sexton

  Time, Eye, Shut Up

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• Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

  Susan Moody

  Golden, Watches, Possibility

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company

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• I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Jumping, Work Out, Training

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• When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

  Jennifer Stone

  School, Dark, Use

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• We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

  Owen Jones

  Girl, Cheating, Husband

  Owen Jones (2015). “An Exciting Future”, p.23, XinXii

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• you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Light, Car, Fields

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• I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

  Tom Waits

  Wind, Sand

  Song: Singapore

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• A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

  Owen Feltham

  Memories, Men, Understanding

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.50

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• There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

  Victor Hugo

  Fall, Tree, Branches

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.324, Modern Library

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• Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Girl, Struggle, Air

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Leadership, Leader, Sand

  Marjorie Bowen (1907). “The Master of Stair”

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• The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the parasol. There were bluish shadows around her eyes.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Rain, Flower, Eye

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• Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

  Louise Erdrich

  Taken, Old And New, Tribes

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• Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Long Ago, Order, Buttons

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

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