Rope Quotes

• Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Two, Hope And Faith

  Ziglar, Zig (1985). “Steps to the Top”, p.34, Pelican Publishing

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• We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Learning, Experience

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• 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

  Important, Bamboo, Stones

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb.

  Michelle Gibson

  Motivation, Higher, Climbs

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• Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

  Tim Finn

  High Heels, Impossible

  Matt Cameron, Tim Finn (2009). “Poor Boy”

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• Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

  Sakura Tsukuba

  Good Luck, Bad Luck, Strands

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• When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

  Viola Davis

  Passionate, Legs, Arms

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

  Rumi

  Strong, Life Changing, Hands

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• A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

  Jack Vance

  Men, Break, Tension

  "To Live Forever". "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter XVI, section 3), 1956.

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• The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Ends, Palms

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• I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Ideas, Strings

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

  Graham Nelson

  Art, Believe, Twists

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• 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

  Strong, Dark, Wells

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• Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

  Multatuli

  Eternity, Immortality, Ends

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Confidence, Sarcastic

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.

  Rumi

  Hands, Sea, Breathing

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• Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

  Mariah Carey

  Ems, Toes, Triumphant

  Song: Triumphant

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• Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

  Philippe Petit

  Exercise, Years, Ideas

  "Man on Wire", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

  Cooper Edens

  Heart, Ends, Knots

  Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.4, Chronicle Books

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• If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

  Kabir

  Thinking, Alive, Ghost

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you.

  Jeff Lowe

  Climbs

  Jeff Lowe (1996). “Ice World: Techniques and Experiences of Modern Ice Climbing”, p.63, The Mountaineers Books

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• Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

  Lou Reed

  Religious, Religion, Pope

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.407, Da Capo Press

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• The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Necks, Flood, Nooses

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.302, A&C Black

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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

  Ignorance, Self, Snakes

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• We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  "A William Ernest Hocking reader: with commentary".

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