Rope Course Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Sarah Kay

#2. For you, dear Sophie, I would rope the moon itself and drag it to your window. - Author: Sherry D. Ficklin

#3. Even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal. - Author: Stephen King

#4. Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind. - Author: D. L. Hughley

#5. One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope. - Author: Donna Lynn Hope

#6. Bound, whether by my will or my rope, open to me in all ways. - Author: Cherise Sinclair

#7. For some it is the end of the rope. For others it is only the beginning. - Author: Michael Dobbs

#8. We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us. - Author: Karl Marx

#9. The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. - Author: Stephen King

#10. Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University. - Author: Adam Johnson

#11. What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock. - Author: Justin Cronin

#12. As I watched that single thread of lightning billow through the water above me like the aurora borealis, I imagined the heavy cord of time stretching away from me in the water like the hard, thick rope on a great ship. - Author: Laura Whitcomb

#13. If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. - Author: Denise Chavez

#14. She switched the headlamp on and saw bats clinging to the side of the cave inches from her face. Someone whimpered. She supposed it was her. She switched the lamp off and played out the rope, dropping more slowly, trying to control the whimpering. - Author: Janet Evanovich

#15. Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. - Author: Cyril Connolly

#16. 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. - Author: John Hart

#17. She drove home and grabbed the things she would need to check out a book: strong rope and a grappling hook, a compass, a flare gun, matches and a can of hair spray, a sharpened wooden spear, and, of course, her library card. - Author: Joseph Fink

#18. I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic. - Author: Philippe Petit

#19. I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope. - Author: Philippe Petit

#20. 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. - Author: Michael Levine

#21. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent. - Author: Idries Shah

#22. One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it. - Author: Michael Moore

#23. I cornered him a few nights after the stampede and made sure he knew that little boys who liked rope got sliced up by men who liked knives. - Author: Amy Harmon

#24. Memory is like a rope, knotted every three or four feet, and hanging down a deep well. When you pull it up, just about anything might be attached to those knots. But you'll never know what's there if you don't pull. And the more you pull at that rope, the more you find. - Author: Dinty W. Moore

#25. Life is a beat as death is a runaway. Combine both and you'll never climb up the rope, you'll stay there forever. - Author: Grace

#26. There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it.
There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford! - Author: Kabir

#27. I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it. - Author: Sophie Scholl

#28. Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. - Author: John Gay

#29. I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing. - Author: Katy Perry

#30. My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?' - Author: James Callis

#31. Another thing I learned: it's one thing to climb a rope in gym class. It's a completely different thing to climb a rope attached to a moving pig's wing while you're flying at a hundred miles an hour. - Author: Rick Riordan

#32. The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.
The suspended body; a harbinger of good news.
Love was lost.
Love was found. - Author: Chirag Tulsiani

#33. Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. - Author: E.B. White

#34. Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do. - Author: Adam Smith

#36. Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ... deadpan funny ... his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. - Author: Ron Miles

#37. You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running. - Author: Terri Farley

#38. 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. - Author: Michael McKean