Rope Quotes

• When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Use
  • Rope
  • Capitalists

• Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.

  

  Catherine Destivelle
  • Fear
  • Rope
  • Unthinkable

• The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Rope

• I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.

  

  John Prine
  • Feelings
  • Kid
  • Loneliness

• An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

  

  William Bolitho
  • Reason
  • Prayer
  • Adventure

• For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Seasons
  • Rope
  • Congrats

• I am the beast at the end of the rope.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • Beast
  • Rope

• I had a rope around my waist, and the rope was attached into the helicopter in case I fell off. And the shot was a shot that began with Kim Novak going out of a house and getting into a bus. Then it was supposed to go over the countryside and find a freight train on which Bill Holden was standing. And then after seeing a good look at the freight train, the camera was supposed to move up into the sky for the end credits.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Helicopter
  • Waist
  • Kim Novak

• A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use."

  

  Nasreddin
  • Use
  • Ground
  • Rope

• Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Impossible
  • Times
  • Rope

• 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
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Rope

• Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Rope
  • Bucket

• 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
  • Film
  • Body

• Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity.

  

  Barney Kessel
  • Activity
  • Rope
  • Boxer

• A man needs a little madness, or else… he never dares cut the rope and be free.

  

  Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Free
  • Madness
  • Rope

• How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Push
  • Rope
  • Influencers

• The thing about Instagram and fashion is that is has absolutely taken down the sense of the velvet rope and has pulled the curtain aside on the entire experience that used to be for a select 100 people in the world. Now it is there for millions of people to consume.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Experience
  • Fashion
  • Instagram

• After that I was infused with a pleasant sense of abandon. Our rope was not long enough for us to abseil down the red step, and the idea of climbing down it without support from above was not to be contemplated; therefore we just had to reach the summit.

  

  Eric Shipton
  • Support
  • Step
  • Abandon

• That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Wish
  • Walks

• 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.
  • Voice
  • Sound
  • Blood

• And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Organization
  • Position
  • Relation

• I do believe you would have cut the rope.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Believe
  • Cut
  • Rope

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