A Quote by Bobby Sands

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

Bobby Sands

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Around Cannot Idea Neck Put Rope

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Bobby Sands
Irish - Activist
March 9, 1954 - May 5, 1981

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Sean O'Casey

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

Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher to try and keep him from putting a rope around my innocent neck? Why, you'd be insane to cause me - to call me violent.

Malcolm X

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Khaled Hosseini

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

Abhimanyu Singh

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

Ambrose Bierce

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

Robert McCloskey

When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

Jerry Reed

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it

Will Rogers

A sweater around your neck is always a great idea.

Tinsley Mortimer

Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

Lord Kelvin

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

Kenneth Jay Lane

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

A. I. Bezzerides

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

Katherine Anne Porter

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