A Quote by Khaled Hosseini
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
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Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.
He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.
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.
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
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.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.
When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.
The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.
Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.
Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it
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