Top 57 End Of The Rope Quotes
#1. For some it is the end of the rope. For others it is only the beginning.
Michael Dobbs
#2. 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
#3. The Abandoned Valley
Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope?
Jack Gilbert
#4. I am the beast at the end of the rope.
Sarah Kane
#6. Security was a mirage; being
tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled.
Jodi Picoult
#7. A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
Bobby Bowden
#8. Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.
Jimmy Breslin
#9. I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.
Michael McKean
#10. Turning to God shouldn't be a last resort; we should look to him for help each day. This isn't to say life will always be easy. There will be struggles, but God will give us the strength to live through them. Don't wait until you're at the end of your rope. Call on God first in every situation.
Anonymous
#11. Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.
Heather King
#12. I remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, 'What if I don't make it? What if I'm still waiting tables when I'm 35?' I was just at the end of my rope. But I've been at the end of that rope several times.
Chelsea Handler
#13. There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.
Denver Moore
#14. The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole ...
Markus Zusak
#15. If you're at the end of your rope ... untie the knot in your heart.
Cooper Edens
#16. When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
Samuel Fuller
#17. They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.
John Grisham
#18. His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
#19. Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.
L. Neil Smith
#20. Extending trust to those who have already proven themselves untrustworthy is a bit like cutting off the end of a rope and sewing it to the other end to make it longer.
James A. Owen
#21. Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#22. In Conservatory of Death we see modern culture tired and kicking at the end of a rope. It is perhaps the first "deathpunk" novel.
David Kerekes
#23. Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.
J. Ogden Armour
#24. The intensity of a person unafraid of death, at the end of his rope.
Banana Yoshimoto
#25. Pursuing a dream without God's approval is as dangerous as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the end ... .!
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. God ... God ... dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God ...
George Bailey
#27. Um, Emerson?" she said. "I've reached the end of my rope.
Janet Evanovich
#28. To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#29. She took a long breath in at the end of her sentence, feeling her voice break and knowing she was at the end of her emotional rope. She didn't want to run off the rails, and plow into Caleb
Shyloh Morgan
#31. You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
Eugene H. Peterson
#32. In other words, Texans lynched one person a month for thirty years, and almost 80 percent of the time the man or woman hanging on the end of a rope or smoldering in the remains of a fire was African American.
E.R. Bills
#33. There was freedom of speech in this era," James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, "so long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope.
James A. Oliver
#34. No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
#35. He's like the kid they use down in Louisiana as alligator bait. They tie him to the end of a rope and he walks out into the swamp. All the kid can do is hope they jerk the rope back in time.
Michael Levine
#36. Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.
Sarah Kay
#37. Three more days. That's what Sven always told me. When you think you're at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you'll find the rope is longer than you thought.
Mary E. Pearson
#38. The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.
John Hart
#39. I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
Stephen Lewis
#41. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #16: WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF YOUR ROPE, DON'T HANG AROUND.
Mark Frost
#43. You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
Anne Lamott
#44. When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream.
Paul Auster
#46. We are not at the end of a rope, as it's so easy to think. Humanity can yet choose to turn direction. The moment has come to leap into action with glad hearts. The seeds are germinating. The fungi are willing. And we must be, too.
Michael Phillips
#47. The Crown doesna always pick the wrong man to hang, Sassenach," he said. "More often than not, the man on the end of a rope deserves to be there. And I shouldna like to think I've helped a villain to go free.
Diana Gabaldon
#48. People are bundles of pain and fear, each wearing their own brand of misery," he continued. "Trust me, I know. When they're at the end of their rope, they come here, with their stories.
Leslie Wolfe
#50. Halt sighed in exasperation. "What is it with you Araluens? Are you all afraid of a little fall?" He began hauling the rope up, coiling it over his shoulder as it came. "It's not the fall that bothers me," said Duncan. "It's the sudden stop at the end.
John Flanagan
#51. I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.
Stanley Elkin
#52. Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over..
The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass by thee must past thee by.
Denver Moore
#53. The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.
Isaac Asimov
#54. Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.
Tom Stoppard
#55. 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
#56. When you get the end of your rope, tie a knot & hold on!
Linda Eyre
#57. I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.
Joan Allen
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