Rope Quotes

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.

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

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

The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.

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

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

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

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...

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

You always want to walk a tight-rope of flavor

The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you.

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

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.

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

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.

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.

There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.

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.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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

Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.

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.

Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

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

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

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

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

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

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

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

So many cowboys....so little rope.

...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

Everton are now hitting the ropes running.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

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