Quotes with tight-rope

  • Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

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  • Pete Holiday Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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  • Max Gunther If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
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  • Joseph Stalin When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Caroline Winberg A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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  • Alan Jay Lerner A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Annie Leibovitz Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Coville Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • Aaron Carpenter If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
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  • Bobby Rahal In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Bob Riley In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Busy Philipps In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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