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Quotes About Rope

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
I mean-- no offense, Leonard, but you really don't like to climb ropes, and get into the Marine Corps, and kill your countriy's enemies, do you?" I said that it wasn't one of the big goals of my life. "Well, maybe you'd like me to get you into this corrective gym class, where you can study toe dancing, and grow up to be a little Commie, sissy boy," Mr. Jerris said. I told him I would like that just fine…
~ Daniel Pinkwater
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.
~ Aimee Bender
But most of the rest of us opt for economy of effort. After all, just about anything tastes good after a hard day of hiking! Start simple, and look to other hikers for ideas. Do not, however, stare into their food pot like a hungry puppy. Be forewarned. Hikers will share advice, stories, and more advice. They will help you set up your tent, get your balky stove to light, and untangle your bear-bagging rope. They will not, as a general rule, share their food.
~ Karen Berger
There are three kinda men in the world. There's men that own rope, men that use eye creme, and that dude from Nickleback.
~ Greg Behrendt
Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Conservatory of Death we see modern culture tired and kicking at the end of a rope. It is perhaps the first "deathpunk" novel.
~ David Kerekes
Pride is the rope God allows us all.
~ Leif Enger
I caught a couple of landmarks and knew we were on Benedict Canyon Drive, getting up into the hills. I'd driven here several times before—in happier days—and I knew almost all the road. It was hilly along here and there were steep clifflike drops and sloping ones. Maybe Dutch would let me jump off a cliff. Suicide. I strained at the rope on my wrists, but it was tight.
~ Richard S. Prather
As soon as the rocky coast line of the island came into view, I ordered one of the ropes to wrap around Annabeth's waist, tying her to the foremast. Don't untie me, she said, no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself. Are you trying to tempt me? Ha-ha.
~ Rick Riordan
If she was still wearing the muzzle and rope, then they--" "--wanted it to look like she really escaped," Sam said. "There's blood on the rope," I said. "That means she pulled free from whoever had her." "Or they're very detail-oriented.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Learning a Word While Climbing It was a clarity come upon The mountains greater than the snow, a name Pronounced among them like an opening When a traveler finds a pass and escapes a storm. While I was falling I saw such a light: saved, My nylon rope came true and swung me free, I hung above the world and saw it, never So bright again, one long glimpse- Eternity.
~ William Stafford
Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.
~ Deb Caletti
I have taken lots of orders, some of which I shouldn't have, but I had never yet taken orders from a piece of machinery. "Go climb a rope!" I said. "You'll have to drag me." This is not what to say to a robot. It did.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
He'd swiftly collected those monsters' heads, tying them together with a piece of the rope she'd hoped never to see again, then strung them over his shoulder. Periodically, he offered his catch to her. "No, no, I have a pair just like them at home," she'd said. "I would just regift them.
~ Kresley Cole
Gracious ignored him. "A farmer's daughter, she was, though back then every girl was a farmer's daughter. Or a farmer. She had long hair like rope, and a nose. All her eyes were blue and she had a smile like a radiant hole in the ground, with teeth. God, she was beautiful." "She sounds terrifying," said Donegan. "Hush, you. I will hear no bad word spoken of your sister.
~ Derek Landy
She'd never been good at banter; it was like a skipping rope whose rhythm she couldn't master enough to jump in with confidence. The war seemed not to exist here, despite the presence of officers in uniform.
~ Jennifer Egan
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?'
~ James Callis
Espero que cheguem a esta fogueira a qualquer momento. Mas a esperança é como um pedaço de corda quando você está se afogando: simplesmente não é o suficiente para tirar você da água sozinho .
~ Robert Jordan
Look, he even tried getting at the rope." Carl studied the scene. "With all the rodents
~ Lauraine Snelling
I scattered J.Lo's tools around the car, searching for some kind of rope, or something that could be used like a rope. I should have paid more attention to anything that looked like a pencil sharpener made of lemon Jell-O that, when cranked, would spit out superstrong yarn that smelled like ginger ale. I only mention this because J.Lo really did have such a thing.
~ Adam Rex
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
~ Aimee Bender
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.
~ Jerome K. Jerome