Rope Quotes - Page 8

• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

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• A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

  Dean Potter

  Climbing, People, Progress

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Men, Ideas

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• I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Moving, Artist, Men

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Even if Donald Trump wins, the establishment's not gonna go down a hole. The establishment's not gonna slink away in defeat. The establishment is gonna look at this as one inexperienced buffoon who happened to get elected versus all of them who know the ropes inside and out of Washington, and they're gonna make it their objective to deny this guy anything and everything that represents anything he campaigned on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like they are about to lose something that is important to them, namely a wife or their family. The same is true with those who are physically and verbally abusive.

  Gary Chapman

  Wife, Important, Program

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Climbing

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• You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

  Viola Davis

  Desperate Situations, Two, Choices

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

  Demetri Martin

  Velvet, Television

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

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• That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

  Robert McCloskey

  Book, Acceptance, Necks

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• I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

  Tim McGraw

  Growing Up, Fun, Mean

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• I don't think [Donald] Trump was playing rope-a-dope. He probably said, "Look, I've done these. How many debates did we do in the primaries? I know what's happening."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Dope, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To pull at a rope at which others happen to be pulling is not a shared or conjoint activity, unless the pulling is done with knowledge that others are pulling and for the sake of either helping or hindering what they are doing.

  John Dewey

  Sake, Done, Helping

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

  Diane Ackerman

  Men, Giving, Littles

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• Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the Ropes, and I'd probably be in sympathy with a different one on any given day, depending on what's going on in the world.

  James Vance

  Believe, Character, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Neutrality, Net Neutrality

  Source: thetartan.org

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• The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

  Trevanian

  Communication, Men, Two

  Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.255, Crown

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• Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Age

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• It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Pain, Sadism, Hussein

  "Spare Thoughts on Saddam" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. December 29, 2006.

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• When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.

  Emily Rios

  Block, Sleep, Cities

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

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• I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

  James Vance

  Challenges, Pages, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Children, Giving, Enough

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• I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room

  James Vance

  Lonely, Men, Shadow

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens to cheer. Fans are having a hard time walking the course. They can barely see anything from outside the ropes. I would be pissed if I paid a lot of money for tickets and could barely see the top players hit golf shots.

  Billy Horschel

  Cheer, Golf, Hard Times

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• I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

  Thomas Howes

  Drama, Fall, School

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