Enough Rope Quotes

#1. Give a Greek enough rope and he'll hang everyone else in sight.

Colleen McCullough

#2. 'You know that saying, give a man enough rope?' When Matt nodded, Howard continued. 'I can assure you the person who came up with it didn't know Aubrey. You give him enough rope and he'll tie you to a chair with it.'

J.L. Langley

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

Diane Ackerman

#4. You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

Charles Haughey

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

Jay-Z

#6. He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Laurence J. Peter

#8. Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Eric Allman

#10. given enough rope, eventually, I am bound to hang myself.

Ally Carter

#11. It was how mothers carried on, after all, with a glint in the eye that implied a sure clairvoyance and also that it was your turn to talk. This was the velvet rope mothers offered: enough silence to make a noose with. Mary

Chris Cleave

#12. It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Henry was now very annoyed; he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn't make a rope long enough.

Andrew Barrett

#14. But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

#15. It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.

Polly Bergen

#16. If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Samuel Butler

#17. Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments,

Elizabeth Kostova

#18. Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel.

Rudyard Kipling

#19. When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!

Kim McMillen

#20. It feels like somehow our hearts have become intertwined. Like when she feels something, my heart moves in tandem. Like we're two boats tied together with rope. Even if you want to cut the rope, there's no knife sharp enough to do it. Later

Haruki Murakami

#21. I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen.

Aimee Bender

#22. (L)ife is like walking between two tall buildings on a tightrope. For some, the rope is wide enough and the walk is easy. For others, it's narrow and hard and maybe there's a strong wind blowing through their days

Walter Dean Myers

#23. The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

Dalai Lama

#24. Keep a man on a rope that's short enough to trip him without choking him.

Jenna Alatari

#25. You really think you can buy some rope without drawing attention?"
Lopen lounged back against the wall. "My cousin's never failed me."
"How many cousins do you have, anyway?" Earless Jaks asked.
"A man can never have enough cousins," Lopen said.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master. They had, the masters, incontestably, the rope - in time, with enough, they would hang themselves with it. They were not to hang me: I was to see to that.

James Baldwin

#27. I looked in the mirror once more. The new clothes felt like salt on the raw wounds, but they covered the worst of it, and I looked less alarming, less confronting, less hideous. I smiled at the mirror. I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.

Gregory David Roberts

#28. Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

Gil Fronsdal

#29. I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

Kenneth Branagh

#30. How much the pain grew inside him after Ossie died until the only way to deal with it was to throw himself into the fray. And the whole time, Vanessa's body was wrapped around him like she was the only one being strong as a shield while he stripped his life bare.

Melissa Cutler