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• There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.

  Paula McLain

  Beautiful, Liars, Ocean

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• 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

  Giving, Necks, Realizing

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2007.

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• That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't take a rope or a life vest or anything. But at the moment, she was just so happy that she paddled over to Leo and kissed him on the cheek, which kind of surprised him. "Miss me?" Leo laughed. Piper was suddenly furious. "Where were you? How are you guys alive?" "Long story," he said. A picnic basket bobbed to the surface next to him. "Want a brownie?

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

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• Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed you honey from a silver spoon. Of course, you wouldn't be able to make all your high-minded judgments if you were a fallen woman...but you wouldn't care. Because I would pleasure you, Hannah, every night, all night, until you forgot your own name. Until you were willing to do things that would shock you in the light of day. I would debauch you from your head down to your innocent little toes-" "Oh, I despise you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Man, you’re a regular Bonnie Parker.” “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” Jesse found that hysterical. “Did Willie say that?” “Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt?

  Ruta Sepetys

  Men, Skirts, Dames

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• I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Pieces, Admire

  1897 Of Cecil Rhodes. Following the Equator, ch.2.

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• If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Children, Fun

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Wish, Logical

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• Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Summer, Country, Children

  "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• 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.

  Terri Farley

  Running, Horse, Expression

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Money, Believe, Giving

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• You rarely see one punch kill anybody. I mean, Davey Moore died, the first fight I ever worked for the title, my guy fought and was getting killed, and he hit Davey Moore. Davey Moore went down. There was no bottom rope to it. I then put bottom rope to it, when I got in power. Hit his head. One blow, hit his head and died.

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Mean, Fighting, Blow

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

  Garth Brooks

  Pain, Joy, Rodeo

  Song: Rodeo, 1991

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• Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Long Ago, Order, Buttons

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

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• But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Character, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• Water inflated the belly
  Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
  Coleridge was a dope.
  Southwell died on a rope.

  Roy Fuller

  Dope, Water, Criticism

  Roy Fuller (1942). “The Middle of a War”

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• I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them.

  Katy Perry

  Country, Song, People

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Virtue, Situation

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• Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

  Mason Cooley

  Spring, Cutting, Arrogance

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• There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

  Ray Kroc

  Pride, Risk, Special

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• Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Different, Strain

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• I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of ideas about our place in the universe has been a long series of let-downs for those who like to believe we are special.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Ideas, Feet

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• Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

  Rumi

  Men, Desire, Faults

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• I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.people.com

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