Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.
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.
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.
Stay away from the ropes
How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.
Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like they are about to lose something that is important to them, namely a wife or their family. The same is true with those who are physically and verbally abusive.
The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.
If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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.
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.
Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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.