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I am the beast at the end of the rope. — Sarah Kane

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler. — Wilford Brimley

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. — Ellen Willis

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

I cornered him a few nights after the stampede and made sure he knew that little boys who liked rope got sliced up by men who liked knives. — Amy Harmon

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

The law is like rope ... useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion. — W.P. Kinsella

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. — Oscar Wilde

I gotta go. Just got a taker on the rope. — Jillian Dodd

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope — Dean Koontz

WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY: You wanna swing? Fine! See that tree branch? The one with the rope ... — Robin Glasser

shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. "Give me — Mark T. Sullivan

Never go questing without a bit of rope, at least that's how the stories have it. — Mark Lawrence

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

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health! — Leonid Andreyev

God's address is at the end of your rope. — Dallas Willard

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. — Cyril Connolly

Everton are now hitting the ropes running. — Glenn Hoddle

Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope — Camille Paglia

The threads of many beliefs can run side by side; from time to time they tangle, and mesh into a stronger rope. — Juliet Marillier

Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat. — Ransom Riggs

The four pieces of rope tied to the brass frame, coated with blood. Her blood. — Kaylea Cross

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. — Taylor Dayne

Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe. — Primo Levi

was then that Joss saw the second scaling hook and rope ten feet away. — Carrier Slocomb

Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. — E. M. Forster

I do believe you would have cut the rope. — Courtney Milan

No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny — Louis L'Amour

Done and done," P.J. said curtly. "Both front towers are clear. Giddy up, cowboys. Let's rope the goat and get back home. — Maya Banks

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves. — Adrien Broner

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

I dream a dream that won't let me sleep. and yet I can't let it go either. Hope & fears are playing a tug-of-war, and I'm the rope in between. — Jyoti Arora

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. — Will Leamon

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. — E.B. White

There was freedom of speech in this era," James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, "so long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope. — James A. Oliver

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on — Theodore Roosevelt

Cool is identified only by defining others as uncool. The velvet rope excludes before it invites. — Greg Gutfeld

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

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. — Bill Cosby

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. — Ramakrishna

Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life, The flag o' skull and bones, A merry hour, a hempen rope, And hey for Davy Jones.' At — J.M. Barrie

Matthias and Wylan seized the rope to pull him up. Jesper wasn't sure how much Wylan was actually helping, but he was certainly working hard. — Leigh Bardugo

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

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. — Jean Toomer

I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it. — Sophie Scholl

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you. — Charles Haughey

First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. — Gene Simmons

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope. — Jennifer Stone

Glistened on the rope, almost level now. Das — Thomas Harris

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. — Margery Allingham

You're putting all your effort into pulling a rope and then blaming the other side for the blister. — Karen Maezen Miller

The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope. — George Foreman

And, my friend, above all things, you most definitely, definitely, do not get away with stepping over the red rope. — Adrienne Kress

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. — Owen Feltham

For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs. — Steve Kerr

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope. — Karl Marx

Love is the knot you tie in your proverbial rope, to hang on to while God works out His will in your life. You were born to be a blessing. — Charlotte Hubbard

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps. — T Bone Burnett

Trying to attack Hegel's ideas from the inside is like trying to loosen the hangman's rope by tugging at the noose. — Nigel Hems

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

For some it is the end of the rope. For others it is only the beginning. — Michael Dobbs

God says, Sure, take away the safety net. And when that's gone, take away the tight rope too. — Stephen King

How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you. — Sarah Reijonen

The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb. — Michelle Gibson

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

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do. — Adam Smith

Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope. — Tom Stoppard

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent. — Idries Shah

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

The Western hero, subdued by kisses and the mere tease of rope. — Rachel Kramer Bussel

Pursuing a dream without God's approval is as dangerous as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the end ... .! — Israelmore Ayivor

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. — Louise Erdrich

Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff. — Mekhi Phifer

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke. — Joan Rivers

The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.
The suspended body; a harbinger of good news.
Love was lost.
Love was found. — Chirag Tulsiani

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

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope. — Idries Shah

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. — Richard P. Feynman

Security was a mirage; being
tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled. — Jodi Picoult

You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. — Eugene H. Peterson

Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you've got a suicide wish, it's not my place to stop you tying the rope. — Anna Martin

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

Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope. — Katherine Paterson

Never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off — Terry Pratchett

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started. — David Blaine

If you're at the end of your rope ... untie the knot in your heart. — Cooper Edens

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope. — Graham Parker

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets. — James Hansen

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. — Oscar Wilde

Don't ever scare me like that again, swinging on the rope."
"I won't. I'll find a new way," she teased. — Lisa Cach

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck. — A. I. Bezzerides

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a know and hang on. — Theodore Roosevelt

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp. — Stephen Levine

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. — Ruta Sepetys