Rope Quotes - Page 17

• One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Dancer, Needs

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Character, Feet, People

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• Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

  Miley Cyrus

  Film

  "Miley Cyrus Gives The Lowdown on Hannah Montana: The Movie". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 13, 2009.

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• Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.

  Dave Gibbons

  Winning, Awards, Storytelling

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• The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Devil, Vote

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.

  William H. Gass

  Running, Eye, Mirrors

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• When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?! Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?

  Kevin James

  Sweat, Orange, Needs

  "Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff", 2001.

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• Stay away from the ropes

  Muhammad Ali

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• How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

  Bill James

  Feet, Pockets, Upside Down

  "The Professor of Baseball" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2003.

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• We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet.

  James Hansen

  Years, Ice, Ties

  "Maher: Bush Guilty of “Treason” for Putting “Oil Profits” Before Global Warming Proof". www.newsbusters.org. March 25, 2006.

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• Women? Well, they are gods. They will always fascinate me. As for rope, I always have it with me. Even when I forget my film, the rope is always in my bag. Since I can't tie their hearts up, I tie their bodies up instead.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Heart, Ties, Bags

  Interview with Dr. Anthony Al-Jamie, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.

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• All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.

  Geneen Roth

  Kindness, Compassion, Snakes

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Aug 07, 2010

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• Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

  John of the Cross

  Strong, Broken, Bird

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• Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine.

  John Cena

  Heart, Wrestling, Sacrifice

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

  Victor Hugo

  Mistake, Thinking, Together

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

  Margaret George

  Fate, Swings, Support

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Giving

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• Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Capitalist, Sells

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• You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Giving, People, Looks

  "‘The Man’ Interviews: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy". www.hollywood.com.

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• What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Giving, Mastery

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• My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Sex, Life Is Like, Shooting

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• I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Home, Bars

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• You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Color, Ties

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• You might be a redneck if you own all the components of soap on a rope except the soap.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Soap

  Jeff Foxworthy (2006). “How Many Women Does It Take to Change a Redneck?”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  D. L. Hughley

  Lynching, Bridges, Ties

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