Rope Quotes - Page 16

• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Cooking, Ceilings

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

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• Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

  George Burns

  Sex, Trying, Thrill

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• [If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Long

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• How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” “The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Katniss, Relief

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• If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  School, Tonight, Skip

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• So many cowboys....so little rope.

  Sable

  Cowboy, Littles

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• Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hurt, Humor

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• Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

  Ron Miles

  Horse, Cowboy, Yarn

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• The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.

  Arpad Elo

  Player, Wind, Water

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• ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Long, Assassins

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Thinking, Long Ago

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• We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet.

  James Hansen

  Years, Ice, Ties

  "Maher: Bush Guilty of “Treason” for Putting “Oil Profits” Before Global Warming Proof". www.newsbusters.org. March 25, 2006.

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• Women? Well, they are gods. They will always fascinate me. As for rope, I always have it with me. Even when I forget my film, the rope is always in my bag. Since I can't tie their hearts up, I tie their bodies up instead.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Heart, Ties, Bags

  Interview with Dr. Anthony Al-Jamie, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.

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• I’m not trying to turn you into cowboys, I’m just trying to get you better coordinated, get your horse used to things, get your horse comfortable.
  Heck, on the first ride you should be swinging a rope off a horse. You should be doing this not so you can rope a cow, but just to get him (your horse) gentle.
  You can’t think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you’d better prepare em for it in other ways.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Cowboy, Thinking

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• I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

  Mark Burnett

  Cutting, Guy, Decision

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• Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Sea, Vision

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2004). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.354, 1st World Publishing

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• I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.

  Thomas Boston

  Hands, Land, Spirit

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• When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Decision, Teeth

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• I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

  Jim Lampley

  Saws, Fighter, Cold

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• How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

  Bill James

  Feet, Pockets, Upside Down

  "The Professor of Baseball" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2003.

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• Stay away from the ropes

  Muhammad Ali

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• The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Devil, Vote

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.

  William H. Gass

  Running, Eye, Mirrors

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• Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Character, Feet, People

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