Rope Quotes - Page 6

• My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.

  Billy Eckstine

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• Truth had me up against the ropes
  And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Skills, Boxing

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• Learn from someone who has already been up there: no matter how unique you feel, there is always someone who has had the same dream before you and ended up leaving marks that can make your journey easier; places to hang the rope, trails, broken branches to make the walking easier. The climb is yours, so is the responsibility, but don't forget that the experience of others can help a lot.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

  L. Neil Smith

  Liberty, Wealth, Moments

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Failure, Busy, Ends

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• A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

  Grace Kelly

  Needs, Pearls, Jewelry

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• I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

  Gerry Spence

  Death, Adventure, Superstitions

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.54, Macmillan

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• For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Men, Hands, Coins

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• You always want to walk a tight-rope of flavor

  Rick Bayless

  Flavor, Want, Chef

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• Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars?

  Mao Zedong

  Stars, Wall, Men

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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• Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

  John Updike

  Winning, Years, White

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• There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Orange, Film

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• Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: An Autobiography”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• ... you... are stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the Father's building, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross (cf. Jn. 12:32), making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended, and your love the way which led up to God. You, therefore, as well as all your fellow-travelers, are God-bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

  Israel Shenker

  Travel, Writing, Voyages

  Israel Shenker (1974). “Words and their masters”

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• If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorrow, World, Matter

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil’s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil’s snare.

  Rupert Grint

  Safety, Devil, Rooms

  "Newsround" with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2002.

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• God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

  George Bailey

  Father, Men, Heaven

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• I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

  Democritus

  Country, Learning, Science

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• I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

  Stanley Elkin

  Writing, Ends

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• Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Mother, Song

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.

  Miles Franklin

  Art, Women, Class

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.463, The Floating Press

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• The way MS carry himself on and off the field, I have learnt a lot for him. I am happy being led by him. I learn a lot from him and I am enjoying every moment of it.

  Dwayne Bravo

  Epic, Ms Dhoni, Dhoni

  "I Am Learning the Ropes of Captaincy From MS Dhoni: Dwayne Bravo". archive.indianexpress.com. May 06, 2013.

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• Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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