Rope Quotes - Page 18

• Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

  John Gay

  Sweet, Gun, Men

  John Gay (1835). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.32

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• When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

  John Eldredge

  Fun, Winter, Boys

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

  Janet Jackson

  Knowing, Feelings, Velvet

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• I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

  Katy Perry

  Hate, Jumping, Dancing

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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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• To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.

  J. B. Smoove

  Moving, Wrestling, Signatures

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• Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher to try and keep him from putting a rope around my innocent neck? Why, you'd be insane to cause me - to call me violent.

  Malcolm X

  Struggle, Men, Insane

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• The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

  Karl Marx

  Lasts, Poverty, Capitalist

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• For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Pockets, Bread

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Men, Together

  Billy Graham (1994). “Answers to Life's Problems”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

  Jay-Z

  Air, Giving, Enemy

  Song: Dig a Hole, Album: Kingdom Come, 2006

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• I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

  John Waters

  Tattoo, Anchors, Desire

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Giving, Acting

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• There are three kinda men in the world. There's men that own rope, men that use eye creme, and that dude from Nickleback.

  Greg Behrendt

  Eye, Men, Use

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• When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Capitalist, Capitalism, Sells

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• Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!

  Dana Gould

  Home, Pilots, Today

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• Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

  George Whitefield

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Photography, Cutting

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.

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• 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

  Strong, Buddhist, Heart

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• 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

  Spiritual, Moon, Heaven

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