Top 100 Quotes About Rope
#1. When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.
Anna Popplewell
#2. I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.
Alex Honnold
#3. Water inflated the belly
Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
Coleridge was a dope.
Southwell died on a rope.
Roy Fuller
#5. There are three kinda men in the world. There's men that own rope, men that use eye creme, and that dude from Nickleback.
Greg Behrendt
#6. Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
Eugene McCarthy
#7. was then that Joss saw the second scaling hook and rope ten feet away.
Carrier Slocomb
#8. There have been only five burglars in the history of robbery who have specialized in rope. All five of these burglars were caught and sent to prison, which is why scarcely any people lock up their rope for safekeeping.
Lemony Snicket
#9. Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he no longer felt like a drowning man at sea. Nora ... the siren and the goddess, the ship and the wine-dark sea. She would either save him or end him.
Tiffany Reisz
#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. If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other.
Brian K. Vaughan
#12. 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
#13. With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline.
Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. We'd all agreed that we'd outgrown jumping rope, but Shady had given me such a nice gift of a skipping rope, and when there's nothing better to do, I guess you go back to what once felt good.
Clare Vanderpool
#15. Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.
Stephen Levine
#16. You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.
Jeff Foxworthy
#17. Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth
that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves
that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night
so the rope, paper, knife.
Tadeusz Borowski
#18. He tugged on an imaginary rope,somewhere on the level of his ear, and then jerked his neck to one side, tongue protruding, eyes bulging. As quick pantomimes went, it was disturbing. And then he let go of the rope and smiled his familiar grin.
Would you like some potato salad?
Neil Gaiman
#19. 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
#20. It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.
Jodi Picoult
#21. Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.
Philippa Perry
#22. 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
#23. All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
Owen Hart
#24. I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
Graham Nelson
#25. I stand here without rope or chains, Liv, tethered to you by my own will." His blood beat with the ferocity of his words. "I won't be free until you are.
Pam Godwin
#26. Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Ayn Rand
#27. 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
#28. I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn't taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.
Patricia Briggs
#29. Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.
Theodore Roscoe
#30. Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.
Ransom Riggs
#31. The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.
Susan Messing
#32. Cool is identified only by defining others as uncool. The velvet rope excludes before it invites.
Greg Gutfeld
#33. Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
Emma Goldman
#34. When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope
Dean Koontz
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.
Philippe Petit
#38. You said something slightly off-color about her shoes and she brought up the fact that you had a slow eye and danced like a goat with a rock stuck in its ass. Ouch. You would just be playing and homegirl would be coming down on you off the top rope.
Junot Diaz
#39. The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.
Ruta Sepetys
#40. Faith is so important. It is a rope for us all to grab, up and down the mountain.
Mitch Albom
#41. When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.
Jennifer Stone
#42. If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably would have tied all those hope-chest linens into a rope and hung myself from a tree!
Barbara Kingsolver
#43. At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
Willard Wigan
#44. When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
Vladimir Lenin
#45. Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
Jandy Nelson
#46. May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath The
Andrzej Sapkowski
#47. If you are in a deep dark well with no rope to climb, hold on to the hope, because it is also a strong rope!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction
William James
#49. 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
#50. I dream a dream that won't let me sleep. and yet I can't let it go either. Hope & fears are playing a tug-of-war, and I'm the rope in between.
Jyoti Arora
#51. I feel the ground slipping under my feet, and just as I am about to fall off the precipice, you draw out a rope and pull me into the safety net of your embrace. That's the thing - I can never trust you to rescue me, and yet you do. Unfailingly.
Rosalyn D'Mello
#52. I tied down time with a rope
but it came back.
Then
I put my head in a death bowl
and my eyes shut up like clams.
They didn't come back.
Anne Sexton
#53. I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.
Charles M. Schulz
#54. 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
#55. No [Peter] Pan has ever survived past puberty. When their bodies start changing, they start looking for the rope and the razor blades. There are some betrayals of the flesh that they simply aren't designed to endure.
Seanan McGuire
#56. Because any Dom knows that the submissive is the one in control. He might wield the crop or the candle wax or the rope, but she holds the reins. Nothing happens without her consent.
Blue Kincaid
#57. The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.
George Foreman
#59. If you're at the end of your rope ... untie the knot in your heart.
Cooper Edens
#60. 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
#61. When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.
Larry McMurtry
#62. 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
#63. Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope
Camille Paglia
#65. But then the memory - not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived and might now very possibly be - would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being, from which I could never have escaped by myself:
Marcel Proust
#66. Lonzo made a show of patting down his pockets "Damn, I must have left my rope and grappling hook in my other pants.
Alexis Morgan
#67. One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.
Katy Perry
#68. If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.
Jackie Kennedy
#70. The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you.
Jeff Lowe
#71. 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
#72. When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!
Kim McMillen
#74. Scarface, Boxer, and Rambo. She couldn't have gotten Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod? she wondered with a desperate kind of hysteria. Moe, Larry, and Curly? The Three Amigos? Rambo tugged a length of rope out of his hip pocket, handed his rifle to Boxer and grabbed her wrist.
Cindy Gerard
#75. WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY: You wanna swing? Fine! See that tree branch? The one with the rope ...
Robin Glasser
#76. Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look back, and see you've been used to cut a path, mark a trail.
Bob Thurber
#77. The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into the scaffold.
Charles Dickens
#79. And yet she continues to skip rope in my mind and on my canvases, raising her dark, hopeful face to the sky, innocent of the depth of people's cruelty toward "the other" - those who, for whatever reason, must swim against the tide instead of letting it carry them. . .
Wally Lamb
#80. Bhutto was the only celebrity I had ever stood behind a rope line to see. Chelsea and I were strolling around London during a holiday trip in the summer of 1989.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#81. A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.
Ronald Reagan
#82. When I awoke I was laying on the floor in a darkened room. The rope, like the very core of myself, had turned from snow white to a hot, unfamiliar red.
C.K. Walker
#83. It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!
Damian Wampler
#84. [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#85. I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.
Stephen King
#86. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Aimee Bender
#87. When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin
#88. It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength as if a rope is dragging it out of you. Then the footsteps stop in front of another solitary confinement cell and when you hear the sound of the key turning you feel relieved.
Sakae Menda
#89. The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
Billy Sunday
#90. Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
Harry Truman
#91. The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
Robin McKinley
#92. Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and throughly worth living.
Terry Pratchett
#93. Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.
Billy Graham
#94. I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles.
Mary Connealy
#95. For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
Kamala Markandaya
#96. Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?
For ever in the same track - for ever at the same pace?
Peter Ackroyd
#97. Boys don't smell the same as girls. They have a pungent, leathery, underneath smell, like old rope, like damp dogs.
Margaret Atwood
#98. You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.
Hafez
#99. ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
Ambrose Bierce
#100. Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.
Lou Reed
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