Against The Ropes Quotes

#1. Truth had me up against the ropes
And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

Pharoahe Monch

#2. If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

Marilyn Manson

#3. Few American commentators evaluated MacArthur's strategic sense at various stages in his generalship in Korea; it was instead the perception of whether he was winning or losing that mattered most to the public.

Victor Davis Hanson

#4. Crying comes from many sources and has many causes: anger, frustration, sadness, lack of sleep. I think I am suffering from all four, and I think that is why I have been crying.

Craig Lancaster

#5. YOU feel sorry for ME? I am not the one who has never tasted bread pudding.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.

Gretchen Carlson

#7. Afterward she felt seedy and sexy and disheveled and filled with despair.

Liane Moriarty

#8. If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

Stephen Hawking

#9. Secrets are strange wild things that fight against their very existence. Try to contain them and they will strain the seams, weaken the ropes, wear down their jailer until they are revealed.

Suzanne Selfors

#10. Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Simon Sinek

#11. When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Catherine Deneuve

#12. Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

Brit Marling

#13. Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Anthony Hopkins

#14. Seemed our house stirred up troubles enough to keep a radio soap show in daily episodes forever.

Allan Gurganus

#15. We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival.

Sarah Castille

#16. I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

Gilbert Arenas