quotes about Traps
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
-- Alice Walker -
Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
-- Anna Godbersen -
We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.
-- Anne KatherineSource : Anne Katherine (2012). “Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.
-- ASAP FergSource : Source: www.gq.com
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We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
-- Carolyn KeeneSource : Carolyn Keene (1943). “Nancy Drew 11: The Clue of the Broken Locket”, p.70, Penguin
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Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
-- Catherine DeneuveSource : "Why French Women Have More Sex Than Their American Sisters" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.
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A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
-- China MievilleSource : China Mieville (2000). “King Rat”, p.254, Macmillan
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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
-- David Levithan -
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
-- Gene Wilder -
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The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.
-- Ingrid Bengis -
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
-- Jacques Derrida -
Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
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If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.
-- Jedediah BerrySource : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.170, Penguin
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Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.
-- Joey Comeau -
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
-- Josephine HartSource : Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”
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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
-- Judah Smith -
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without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily
-- Kay HooperSource : Kay Hooper (2016). “What Dreams May Come”, p.82, Loveswept
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Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
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I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.
-- Lee Trevino -
Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.
-- Leigh BardugoSource : Leigh Bardugo (2017). “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic”, p.50, Imprint
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I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
-- Les DawsonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.
-- Matthew J. Kirby -
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
-- Milan Kundera -
Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.
-- Milan Kundera -
There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
-- Mohnish PabraiSource : Dennis Altman (1982). “The Homosexualization of America”, Beacon Press (MA)
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Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
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Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?
-- Nick Vujicic -
Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.
-- Paul CollierSource : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.5, Oxford University Press
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
-- Raymond ChandlerSource : The Long Goodbye ch. 12 (1953)
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One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
-- Rirkrit Tiravanija -
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All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.
-- Robert E. Sherwood -
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.
-- Robert Jordan -
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
-- Robert Rauschenberg -
There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me
-- Russell T Davies -
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There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.
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Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
-- Samuel Richardson -
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
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Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
-- Storm Jameson -
Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.
-- T. B. Joshua -
The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.
-- Thomas Leonard -
To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.
-- Wendell Johnson -
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Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
-- Willie Stargell -
Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.
-- Yvan Audouard -
I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"
-- Dev HynesSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
-- Charles A. MurraySource : Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.9, Basic Books
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Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it
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Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.
-- Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon -