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Quotes About Trap

He stared at me. "Strange you should do all this for her." "Pity, I guess." "One of the worst traps of all, McGee.
~ John D. MacDonald
secret of the warrior-heart of Jesus. Second, a warrior is cunning. He knows when to fight and when to run; he can sense a trap and never charges blindly ahead;
~ John Eldredge
CunoaÈ™terea nu m-a f?cut fericit, m-a cuprins o furie surd? împotriva legii evoluÈ›iei, care acceptase ca în una È™i aceeaÈ™i minte s? existe atâta sensibilitate È™i atâta stâng?cie totodat?. În mine se revolta propriul eu ca un iepure în capcan?.
~ John Fowles
Performativity has to do with repetition, very often with the repetition of oppressive and painful gender norms to force them to resignify. This is not freedom, but a question of how to work the trap that one is inevitably in.
~ Maggie Nelson
tired of hearing that the most resistance one could muster in a Foucauldian universe was to work the trap one is inevitably in.
~ Maggie Nelson
I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
~ John Steinbeck
Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him.
~ John Steinbeck
The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals.
~ Mark Batterson
Baldwin makes it clear that the man released back onto the streets is "afraid, in fact, to hit those streets," and "to be free to confront his life." He is left by prison "terrified . . . of what life may bring, is terrified of freedom; and is struggling in a trap.
~ Unknown
It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Our procrastination is fueled by our perfectionism. We get caught in the trap of thinking we don't have time to do it right. This is when we do nothing. Eventually the procrastination bites us hard and our homes become overwhelming.
~ Unknown
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.
~ Unknown
And I told myself I was in a trap from which I wanted to escape! To escape where, do you, Man know where you want to go to break from tis inferno of your own existence? No, I do not know because I am blind and my Knowledge is in face an Illusion of Life wrapped in non- Knowledge, which is the Absolute Truth as unknown to me as the non-Knowledge.
~ Sorin Cerin
"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the Spider to the Fly;" 'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy."
~ Mary Howitt
Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly
~ Mary Howitt
There was still the temptation to believe the world was a mere trap for human sin. But sin, the way he saw it, was only the failure of an imperfectly made being to keep a perfect law.
~ Matthew Pearl
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
~ Meriwether Lewis
Arcángel Baleiro, el cazador. Ese hombre me cazó hace tiempo. Desde entonces nunca más he tenido descanso. Huir de un amor es la manera más perfecta de obedecerlo. Cuanto más dueña de mí misma, más esclava de ese amor. No hay río en este mundo que me libre de esa trampa.
~ Mia Couto
Visibility is a trap.
~ Michel Foucault
Dete je klopka koja se zatvorila, neprijatelj koga ?ete morati i nadalje da izdržavate i koji ?e vas nadživeti.
~ Michel Houellebecq
So my generation fell into the trap, internalizing the either/or as we thought of ourselves as 'hot' or 'cold' and falling victim, once again, to the terms by which our sex had been conveniently divided for so many years. To the degree that sex was the equivalent of the self, surrender to sex was to lose oneself, whereas abstinence would insure its safeguarding, if not its salvation (viv).
~ Molly Haskell
Time is a quantum, psychological trap of our subconsciousness in which the script of our life is built, our fate is programmed by our subconscious.
~ Unknown
Narcissists, however, are similar to a spider that has built a web for its prey to bring itself.
~ Unknown
What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remain obsessed, even as our bodies move on?
~ Noah Hawley