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Quotes About Rope

When they reached the ranch, Dave parked the truck at the stable. The girls heard laughter coming from the corral and saw Tex Britten perched on the fence. Bess was mounted on a brown quarter horse and holding a coiled lariat. "Watch me!" she called. "I'm learning to rope a steer." Nancy and George walked over and saw Bud Moore put his hands on his head like horns and prance in front of Bess's horse. "Come on and rope me, pardner!" he said.
~ Carolyn Keene
Rescue, however, had many names, and the rope up which a maiden climbed to safety might be used to bind her most cruelly.
~ Thomas Pynchon
which is to subordinate the constraint. In the Theory of Constraints, this is typically implemented by something called Drum-Buffer-Rope. In
~ Gene Kim
Cullmann interprets the binding of Satan by his quaint idiom that he is bound, but with a long rope.42 Satan is not powerless, but his power has been broken.
~ George Eldon Ladd
I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.
~ Alex Honnold
Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.
~ Suzanne Collins
Are you, are you Coming to the tree Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.
~ Suzanne Collins
Vas, vas a volver al árbol con un collar de cuerda para conmigo pender? Cosas extrañas pasaron en él, no más extraño sería en el árbol del ahorcado reunirnos al anochecer.
~ Suzanne Collins
And the pain … the pain of my awareness is unbearable. Because my eyes do not close. Ever. And so all I can do is watch unblinkingly as my beloved humankind slowly weaves the rope it will use to hang itself. – The Thunderhead
~ Neal Shusterman
And the pain… the pain of my awareness is unbearable. Because my eyes do not close. Ever. And so all I can do is watch unblinkingly as my beloved humankind slowly weaves the rope it will use to hang itself.
~ Neal Shusterman
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
~ Philippe Petit
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
So I Lyfted to Home Depot, where I bought random stuff, rope and duct tape, plastic bags, cable ties, and plastic gloves. The girl at the register winked and said she's also a big fan of Fifty Shades and this is what has become of our society. Fucking and killing are the same damn thing.
~ Caroline Kepnes
you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket
~ George Orwell
Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.
~ Geraldine Brooks
thought—Ah change the world? Ah set the fee? Are rope the angels in all the sea?
~ Jack Kerouac
The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.
~ Jimmy Breslin
You have very little rape experience. Now, here we have a rope homicide
~ Nelson DeMille
You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.
~ Terri Farley
As I watched that single thread of lightning billow through the water above me like the aurora borealis, I imagined the heavy cord of time stretching away from me in the water like the hard, thick rope on a great ship.
~ Laura Whitcomb
but that is how the clues God leaves sometimes work. Sometimes nothing comes of them. Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along. Sometimes you wonder, how did I miss it? Surely any idiot should have been able to see from the second chapter that it was Miss Scarlet in the conservatory with the rope.
~ Lauren F. Winner
Miss Ruell was still covered with snow. She was untying a rope that was knotted around her waist. John realized she must have tied the other end to something in the schoolhouse.
~ Lauren Tarshis
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
~ Nikita Khrushchev