Quotes about Rope

Eugene McCarthy

A liberal is someone who throws a drowning man 50 feet from the shore a 30 foot rope and says, "I've met you more than halfway.

Billy Collins

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

Dallas Willard

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

Ronald Reagan

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

Viola Davis

When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

Nigel Cawthorne

The bodies of victims were ... the hangman’s property. Although obliged to sell the corpses of murderers to surgeons for dissection purposes, the executioner sometimes sold them back to the families if they offered a better price. It was often difficult to keep the body intact as the crowd would grab pieces as macabre souvenirs. On 18 December 1758, a riot broke out when the medics fought the family for possession of the victim’s body – however, the mob won and carried the corpse away in triumph. The hangman would also be allowed to cut up the rope that was used in the execution and sell bits off in the pubs on Fleet Street.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, this quote first appeared in a 1946 article in “California Folklore Quarterly.”

Denis Diderot

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails,
For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

George Herbert

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

T Bone Burnett

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.

James Callis

My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

Louise Erdrich

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

Harry S. Truman

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

Ann Bancroft

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Harry Houdini

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

Alice Sebold

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

Cynthia Kadohata

you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

Robin McKinley

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.