We learn the rope ordsprog

en We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

en I like Scouting and being out with the young men. I like to watch them learn new things like camping and tying knots. Once they learn it, the looks on their faces are priceless.

en To be doing up to 15 knots in basically 10 knots of breeze in pretty much an easterly is quite exceptional.

en I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch.

en If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

en The day dawns, and then it ends, and the night passes away. Man's life is diminishing, but he does not understand. Each day, the mouse of death is gnawing away at the rope of life.

en It has been a rough 15 hours. Yesterday afternoon [Tuesday] the wind came up to 30 knots from the south-east and some large and steep waves built up. We're launching off the waves at 11 knots and slamming down hard, making some awful sounds, so we even slowed her down for a while. You can't win if the boat breaks.

en 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

en It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, he'll hang himself. But how much rope will it take?

en 1)If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope, or a tree branch, or find something useful to do. 2)I could do that. I have got some rope up here. But I do not think that you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you. 1)That does put a damper on our relationship.

en Pex Tufvesson started Livet.se. Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman -- a rope over an abyss.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en They'd be skidding around, hanging onto a rope for dear life. That was our first winter.

en Once bitten by a snake, he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope.

en For on the rope that hangs my dear / Depends poor Polly's life.
  John Gay

en I knew it would be. Our theme for this week was holding on to the rope. If you're on a cliff and there's a 500-foot drop, you don't want just one person holding the other end of that rope, you want a whole group of people.


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