Quotes About Trap

You've been cursed with people's high expectations, he said, shaking my hand. Because it means they are also easily disappointed. It's something I'm familiar with. I fear it can be a trap. p351

She said okay. Probably she thought I was growing up to be one more prick in her life, a junior-varsity Stoner. It's not that I wanted to be mean. But any time I started feeling sorry for her, something in my brain said Don't go there, it's a trap.

It occurred to him later that this was when he began to love the boy—which was, of course, what the man in black must have planned all along. Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

How its heart beats! How it struggles to get away! As we do, Paul. As we do. We think we know so much, but we really don't know any more than a rat in a trap—a rat with a broken back that thinks it still wants to live.

The more you rehearse the wrongs against you and the more you stay in that trap, the more the syringes of bitterness release their toxins into your soul.

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

The treaty, though it has good points, is a vast trap.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

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.

As if we'd fall for an obvious trap like that," said Happy. "We're not going to fall for an obvious trap like that, are we? Oh shit, we are. I want to go home.

booby trap.

I am not anticipating a trap, but it is better to be feel foolish and alive than surprised and dead.

Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil's trap, having been captured by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:26

Well, first you have to see the circular pattern of responses and really understand that proving the other wrong just pushes you further and further apart. The temptation to be the "winner" and to make the other admit she is at fault is just part of the trap.

Put them in a spot where they have no place to go, and they will die before fleeing.

Candle flame burning bright, With your flame on this night, Trap the evil, seal it well, in this stone, make it remain. Never to be free again.

Der Projektkreislauf ist eine Falle der man nicht leicht entkommt. Er verwandelt auch die Endprojektierung des Daseins in ein neues Projekt. Die Schaffbarkeit von 'es' ist die Grundlüge der modernen Lebens und Arbeitswelt, ein kollektiver Selbstbetrug inzwischen lautlos zerplatzt.

If you don't take your stand for Christ, you will be on the wrong side, and someday when it is too late, you'll cry out, "I've taken the wrong stand!" You'll be in the devil's trap! You can't lick the devil.

Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

they focus on survival. Some never leave the survival stage. The more fortunate ones move on to the growth stage. Either way, they run the risk of getting caught in what Covey calls "the activity trap," the tendency "in the busy-ness of life to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the "tolerance trap" so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God's law of chastity.

One of those thick red carpets that seems to trap time. I have one

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.