Quotes About Trap

Burn my last letter, I am sooo lucky! I am not on the menu, I am a guest (somebody you have to stay). That zippy bag was not a trap, it was for sleeping, hmmm cosy! They put me in it for first aid!

If you head too far north, you'll land in some variety of tourist trap, whether it's Lombard Street or Fisherman's Wharf or, if you're really unfortunate, the Marina.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.

Do not let the bully victimize you and make you hate yourself, Stand up for yourself don't fall for anyone's trap.

We must not let fear be our guide. Fear can be a powerful motivator, but it can also be a trap that keeps us from living our lives to the fullest. We must learn to confront our fears and overcome them, rather than allowing them to dictate our actions (Kneubuhl 37).

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

An insect may not be able to avoid being caught in the spider's web. And when once trapped, it is unable to free itself. There is one thing, however, over which each person has absolute, inherent control, and that is his mental attitude. We can avoid mental cobwebs. We can clear them. And we can sweep them away as they begin to develop. We can free ourselves when once enmeshed. And we can remain free.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

The greatest curse, he'd thought, was to be stuck in one's own time—and the greatest power was to see beyond its horizons. Studying history had given him the illusion of observing safely from outside the trap. Only that's what the world was: a trap. The circumstances you were born to, the situations you found yourself in—to dodge that fray was impossible. And what you did within it was your life.

I pushed the door inward. It moved as smoothly, as silently as the mechanism of a well-crafted, spring-loaded trap.

Orlando, sevda orman? sana göre yer de?ildir! Alçakça tuzaklar?ndan seni hiçbir kalkan?n koruyamayaca?? bir dü?man?n pe?inden ko?uyorsun.

Il passato (proprio per il fatto d'avere un'immagine così compiuta nella quale non si poteva pensare di cambiar nulla come in quel dormitorio) gli pareva una gran trappola. E il futuro, quando ci se ne fa un'immagine (cioè lo si annette al passato), diventava una trappola esso pure.

For a couple of pages now you have been reading on, and this would be the time to tell you clearly whether this station where I have got off is a station of the past or a station of today; instead the sentences continue to move in vagueness, grayness, a kind of noman's land of experience reduced to the lowest common denominator. Watch out: it is surely a method of involving you gradually, capturing you in the story before you realize it— a trap.

I hate the idea of "resolutions." When we make a resolution, we try to plan out the next month or the next year. It's a total trap. We can't control what's going to happen down the road; pledging to go to the gym four days a week or to never eat chocolate cake for a year is just a recipe for failure. So forget the future; just make the next healthy choice for yourself right now.

Moving to L.A., I got really into hip-hop and trap music and basically a lot of the sounds you would maybe normally see in a festival, but for whatever reason, I was so involved in vinyl and house at the time, I didn't even know that I liked trap.

I wanted John to feel comfortable in therapy but not so comfortable that I wasn't helping him. Above all, I didn't want to fall into the trap that Buddhists call idiot compassion

Since the teachers weren't picking, I ended up with a boy with bad body odour. 'You should wear deodorant,' I said to him. 'And you should shut your trap,' he replied.

Let them fall into the snare which they have laid.

the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.

And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.

I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.

It is another of consumerism's ironies that, although it functions like a mental trap, we often think of it as an escape.

An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.