Rope Quotes

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

End, Reach, Tie

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gratitude, Done, Far

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns

Age, Sex, Trying

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

Person, Free, Else

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna

God, True, Important

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev

Nature, Rather, Support

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

Team, Events, Steers

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak

Ignorance, Self, State

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.
Mark Udall

Someone, Together, Working

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

Hands, Guts, Kings

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Charlotte Bronte

Him, Give, Enough

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.
Katy Perry

Hope, Hard, Same

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
Sloane Crosley

Power, Parenting, Nothing

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Makes, Blood, Head

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
Phil McGraw

Stranger, Pinch

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

Book, Together, Meaning

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

Home, Today, Lost

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
Richard Ernst

Time, Feeling, Artist

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.
Craig Ferguson

Talk, Show, Host

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

Beautiful, Girl, Her

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.
Hulk Hogan

High, Hear, Hold

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'
Curt Schilling

Successful, Tell, Lose

If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out. I work out, I do circuit training so I try to keep my heart rate up whether I'm doing cardio, lifting weights or jumping rope. I like to mix it up. I also take Zumba classes - I love those, those are a blast.
Jordin Sparks

Love, Work, Crazy

My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.
Sherri Shepherd

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
John Irving

Else, Able, While

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

Art, Follow, Directions

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
Stephen Lewis

Travel, End, Find

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

Around, Build, Wall

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

Down, Times, High

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