Rope Quotes - Page 18

• Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).

  Lee Haney

  Jumping, Training, Jogging

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• We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

  Janet Jackson

  Knowing, Feelings, Velvet

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• I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

  Katy Perry

  Hate, Jumping, Dancing

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• What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment - what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically?

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Wings, Healthy, Passing Away

  "The Blind Owl". Book by Sadegh Hedayat (1937), translated by Iraj Bashiri, 1974.

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• Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Giving

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• It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

  Margaret George

  Fate, Swings, Support

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

  Victor Hugo

  Mistake, Thinking, Together

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

  Owen Hart

  Land, Movement, Flip

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• You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Color, Ties

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• I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Home, Bars

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• My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Sex, Life Is Like, Shooting

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• 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 them noogies back?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Giving, Mastery

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• I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

  Jay-Z

  Air, Giving, Enemy

  Song: Dig a Hole, Album: Kingdom Come, 2006

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• I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

  John Waters

  Tattoo, Anchors, Desire

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Giving, Acting

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• There are three kinda men in the world. There's men that own rope, men that use eye creme, and that dude from Nickleback.

  Greg Behrendt

  Eye, Men, Use

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• When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Capitalist, Capitalism, Sells

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• Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!

  Dana Gould

  Home, Pilots, Today

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• The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

  Karl Marx

  Lasts, Poverty, Capitalist

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• For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Pockets, Bread

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Men, Together

  Billy Graham (1994). “Answers to Life's Problems”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

  George Whitefield

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Photography, Cutting

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.

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• Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

  Hsu Yun

  Strong, Buddhist, Heart

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• What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Moon, Heaven

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