Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aimee Bender

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Miley Cyrus

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

Joan Allen

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

Ayn Rand

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

Isaac Asimov

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Linda Lingle

They really put up with a lot and I think they're just at the end of their rope right now,

Karl Marx

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Margaret Atwood

They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.

Maggie Stiefvater

It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.

Muhammad Ali

Stay away from the ropes

Thomas Guthrie

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

Sarah Kane

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

Vladimir Lenin

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

Vladimir Lenin

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

Tim Finn

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Victor Hugo

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.