Top 58 Roper Quotes
#1. There is no one better than a good Englishman and no one worse than a bad one. I have observed you. I think you are a good one. Mr Pine, do you know Richard Roper?
John Le Carre
#2. For tonight, I have to get back to Three's Company. I stopped last night in the middle of the episode where Mr. Roper saw something and took it out of context.
Andy Weir
#3. Only when we see others through God's eyes can we love them as He does. - Bobbie Roper -
Gary Chapman
#4. Hotel's full up, I'm afraid, Mr. Roper, Jonathan rehearsed in another last-ditch effort to fend off the inevitable. Herr Meister is desolated. A temporary clerk has made an unpardonable error. However, we have managed to obtain rooms for you at the Baur au Lac, et cetera.
John Le Carre
#5. In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.
Michael Berryman
#6. I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
Dave Brubeck
#7. It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".
D. V. Ager
#8. What do you mean, Jesus?' May Roper pulled the crocheted sea a little further up her legs.
'On the drainpipe. I've seen Him with my own eyes.'
'Have you been in the sun again, Brian?'
'Sheila Dakin thinks it's a sign.'
'A sign she's been at the sherry.
Joanna Cannon
#9. In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.
Gayle Roper
#10. I am a pretty good actor. Most of my friendships are based on the fact that I pretend to be outgoing and funny in social situations, but when I get home, I tend to isolate myself because I am actually somewhat bipolar and introverted.
Reese Roper
#11. Napoleon, true to his word, began the work of preparing Haiti for the transfer of former American slaves, about a third the number of them as there had been prior to the uprisings and reprisals.
Billy Roper
#12. Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.
Matt Roper
#13. I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.
Reese Roper
#14. I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.
Steve Roper
#15. The working class positively benefited from Hitler's rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
#16. Harrison, Arkansas, a town of 12,000, which is over 90% White, has a 'Task Force On Race Relations', and elected city officials invite the NAACP in from the other (black) end of the state to hold parades and bury caskets labeled 'racism'.
Billy Roper
#17. If we truly love other people, they will see it. That love is infectious.
Reese Roper
#18. Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation and competition between specialized populations within a group.
Billy Roper
#20. what you pretend to be, is exactly what you will become.
Billy Roper
#21. It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".
Reese Roper
#22. I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.
Matt Roper
#23. If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.
Matt Roper
#24. I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.
Matt Roper
#25. It must live on. The revolution must not end here.
Billy Roper
#26. Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.
Matt Roper
#27. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?
Matt Roper
#28. Thomas Paine said, if war must come, let it come in our time, so that our children may live in peace. And it must. So, bring it. Hasten The Day.
Billy Roper
#29. I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.
Matt Roper
#31. The fragile and ancient hurt that seeps out of adults when they speak
of wronged childhoods.
Martin Roper
#32. To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.
John W. Roper
#33. Millions more will starve and die from disease and cold during the first winter after the collapse.
Billy Roper
#34. Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal.
Gayle Roper
#35. Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.
Reese Roper
#36. I was raised in the old way, a way that the young folk see as worn and backwards, today. But if it had not been for our way, they would never have lived to make their own way, so it served them as well as it served us.
Billy Roper
#37. I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
Matt Roper
#38. Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.
John W. Roper
#39. Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.
Matt Roper
#40. I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.
Matt Roper
#41. I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'
Matt Roper
#42. The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#43. Goddamn it ! His parka doesn't fit me !
Steve Roper
#44. Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
Gayle Roper
#45. Unlike other reformers, Luther rarely claimed divine inspiration for his ideas. It is interesting too that he uses the word Kunst - art - for it suggests that the insight, like the skill of a craftsman or artist, opened up a whole new ability to accomplish things in a different way.
Lyndal Roper
#46. Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics ...
Steve Roper
#48. If every major city in America went up in the flames of race riots tonight, how ready would you be?
Billy Roper
#49. The problem with tying yourself to a cripple is that it doesn't make you stronger, it only makes you slower.
Billy Roper
#50. Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison
Jane Roper
#51. There would be no life for darkies in the new Dixie, or the new United States, either, come to that.
Billy Roper
#53. The death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#54. We must remember to enjoy ourselves.
Matt Roper
#55. I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'
Matt Roper
#56. It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.
Robert Roper
#57. History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#58. the police traced the importation of the counterfeit currency to the Freud family.
Billy Roper
