Noose Quotes

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. (H. G. Wells)
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. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
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. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Plainly said, 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. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? View quote
John Trumbull
This deadly impasse, the tightening of the corporate totalitarian noose, would have continued if Snowden had not jolted the nation awake by disclosing the massive crimes of the prerogative state. View quote
Chris Hedges
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends. View quote
Ayn Rand
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful. (Yann Martel)
Today, the Israelis tightened the noose on the mass media in northern occupied Palestine and occupied Palestine. No one can report any news or broadcast any footage. [News reports] are subject to the Israeli censorship which permits and disseminates them. Even you at Al-Jazeera Channel were subjected to arrests, interrogation, restricted activities, and the like. Why do the Israelis resort to concealing the truth on the other side? Why? Do they do that only because they accuse the media outlets of setting the coordinates? This is nonsense. We have the coordinates of these Israeli settlements and military positions in the north, centre, or in any part of occupied Palestine. We do not need anybody to give us information, images, or the like. In that case, they want to conceal the true scene of the war on the other side because it will have definite impact on the Israeli street and media and the morale of the Israelis. View quote
Hassan Nasrallah
Just what kind of noose are you offering to put round my neck, here? Is this treason?" "Worse," Cazaril sighed. "Theology. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I never realised the passing hours of evening showers. A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams, I'm strangled by your haunted social scene. Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen. It's four o'clock in the morning, Damn it listen to me good. I'm sleeping with myself tonight, Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive. View quote
Elton John
Adrian frowned. 'Is that a noose?' 'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this. 'My mistake. View quote
Richelle Mead
An unquestioned creed is a noose about the throat of Reason. View quote
Michael Moorcock
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose. View quote
Elena Ferrante
A bloody and a sudden end, Gunshot or a noose, For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose. View quote
William Butler Yeats
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. View quote
Hortense Calisher
Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose, An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I know you want to study me psychologically. That's reasonable and I appreciate it. At least you don't lecture to me and pry into my affairs. You have a good technique as a psychiatrist. Let the other fellow talk and stick his neck into the noose. I don't mean that the way it sounds. But you hardly say anything. Someday I'm going to ask you questions. (Hermann Göring)
The Endgame: "The object of this game is to dare to fall with a noose around your neck from a place sufficiently off the ground such that a fall will hang you. The object of the game is to punish those who have caused great unhappiness by their selfish actions. This is the best game of all because the winner is also the loser and the judge's decision is always final." View quote
Peter Greenaway
Marriage is a noose. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint. View quote
Brent Weeks
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? View quote
Linda Ellerbee