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  • The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

    Night   Circles   Necks  
    Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.144, Penguin
  • I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

    Hate   Coffee   Littles  
    "Harvest of Power" by Patty Newman, reason.com. July 30, 2013.
  • The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

    Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.26, Penguin
  • A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

    Hortense Calisher (1971). “Queenie: a novel”, McNally & Loftin Publishers
  • A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

    Rope   Ends   Leashes  
    Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.850, Penguin
  • We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

    Men   Benefits   Pay  
    Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
  • Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

  • No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.

    Loyalty   Queens   Wall  
  • Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

  • There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

    Nfl   Halos   Inches  
  • When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

    Mean   Kids   Thinking  
  • Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

    "The madness of Kim Jong II" by Philip Gourevitch, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2003.
  • Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.

    Writing   Years   Promise  
    Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.109, University of Chicago Press
  • 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.

    Giving   Rope   Necks  
    "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2007.
  • ...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

  • "Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.

    War   Nice   Piano  
    "The Initial Shock... A Conversation with Paul Fussell". Humanities, November/December 1996.
  • Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

    Life   Worry   Anxiety  
    Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press
  • Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

    Blessed   Offering   Iron  
    Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.261, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

    Time   Peace   War  
    H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press
  • Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

    Self   Relax   Ease  
    "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.
  • Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

  • Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

  • There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

    Gay   Men   Silence  
  • Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

    New York   July   Knives  
    "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.
  • Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

    "Resume" l. 5 (1926)
  • I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

    Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.136, Penguin
  • According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.

  • I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

  • Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up there [in the noose] it does give you pause but I'm no stranger to degradation and dehumanization. I felt a lot of pride to be a part of showing something like this because a lot of people don't know and haven't been exposed to these types of historical experiences until they see it depicted on our show [Underground].

    Source: lasentinel.net
  • Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

    Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.712, Scholastic Inc.
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