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Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. -- Charlotte Bronte
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. -- Jean Toomer
The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope. -- George Foreman
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. -- Joseph Stalin
Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. -- Nikita Khrushchev
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side. -- Janet Jackson
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Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. -- Guru Nanak
The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. -- Bill Buford
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. -- Richard Ernst
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. -- Ramakrishna
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. -- Bill Cosby
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. -- Camille Paglia
Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times. -- Tim Finn
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. -- Mae West
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. -- Denis Diderot
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. -- Graham Nelson
I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler. -- Wilford Brimley
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. -- Norman Cousins
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! -- George Whitefield
Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart. -- Hsu Yun
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
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
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. -- Charles Spurgeon
You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt. -- Phil McGraw
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. -- Camille Paglia
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. -- Arthur Baer
I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do. -- Joan Allen
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. -- Cyril Connolly
Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will. -- Mark Sanchez
I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of. -- Lauren Oliver
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. -- Philippe Petit
They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with. -- George Foreman
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? -- Sloane Crosley
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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
Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone. -- Mark Udall
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them. -- Ann Hood
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
I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age. -- Jesse Plemons
So many cowboys....so little rope. -- Sable
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. -- Ayn Rand
Pride is the rope God allows us all. -- Leif Enger
Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope. -- Lou Reed
God's address is at the end of your rope. -- Dallas Willard
Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
What are you? "A man with a rope?" "Ha-ha. -- Karen Marie Moning
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. -- Miguel de Cervantes
You always want to walk a tight-rope of flavor -- Rick Bayless
I am the beast at the end of the rope. -- Sarah Kane
If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope? -- Gordon Downie
One can lynch a person without a rope or tree. -- James H. Cone
My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope! -- Rodney Dangerfield
what a rope of sand we are without a leader ... -- Marjorie Bowen
Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. -- Multatuli
I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves. -- Adrien Broner
The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb. -- Michelle Gibson
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with. -- Vladimir Lenin
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death. -- George Herbert
Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it -- Will Rogers
Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope. -- Sakura Tsukuba
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up. -- Laurence J. Peter
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea. -- Bobby Sands
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends. -- Ayn Rand
The end of the rope stops in the palm of God. -- Dillon Burroughs
A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps. -- Auliq Ice
We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us. -- Karl Marx
a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow -- Markus Zusak
Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable. -- Catherine Destivelle
I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand -- Tom Waits
Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope -- Camille Paglia
When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope -- Dean Koontz
The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you. -- Jeff Lowe
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger. -- Diane Ackerman
Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all. -- Deb Caletti
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. -- Edith Wharton
I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile. -- Charles M. Schulz
We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt. -- William Ernest Hocking
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope. -- Karl Marx
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart. -- Cooper Edens
The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable. -- Susan Messing
I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing. -- Katy Perry
He had forgotten they lived with a rope around their necks - until it cinched. -- E.J. Koh
I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. -- Stanley Elkin
When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. -- Khaled Hosseini
A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back. -- Ronald Reagan
When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health! -- Leonid Andreyev
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push. -- Bob Burg
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. -- Stephen King
If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight. -- Jackie Kennedy
His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands. -- Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one. -- Craig Ferguson
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. -- Tom Waits
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. -- Richard P. Feynman
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand? -- Rumi
We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with. -- Owen Jones
Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself. -- Will Rogers
You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you. -- Charles Haughey
Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety. -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood. -- Jeff Foxworthy
You might be a redneck if you own all the components of soap on a rope except the soap. -- Jeff Foxworthy
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. -- Stephen Lewis
Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope. -- Roy Fuller
I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke. -- Joan Rivers
Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.). -- Lee Haney
By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. -- Taylor Dane
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. -- Louise Erdrich
never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off -- Terry Pratchett
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope. -- Eugene McCarthy
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free. -- Mark Millar

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