Quotes About Trap

At home he found the same threats waiting for him. He unlocked the door and stepped into the trap he had formed around him.

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?" "Probably," Frank said. "She's not mortal," Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus." "No doubt," Percy agreed. "Awesome." Hedge grinned. "Let's go.

It's another trap." Corey looked at me. "It…sounds like it," I said. "But if it's a good trap, then they really did let Hayley go. She's out here as bait." "So you think you can outsmart them and rescue her?" Sam said. "No, the smart thing to do is keep going." We argued about that, of course.

I'm not disallowing the possibility that I could commit murder, under extreme circumstances. But falling into a honey trap? Unknowingly fathering a child? Absolutely not.

Too bad dogs can't talk," Sam said. I glanced over at her. "Um, we're all feeling bad about Hayley," Corey said. "Don't interrupt by wishing we could question the dog." "That's not what I meant. Hayley could tell you it was a trap. He can't." "Kenjii's a she," I said. "Whatever.

Springes to catch woodcocks.

education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth of the matter is that regardless of institutional education level, workers around the world can be adequately trained on the job for high productivity.

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

Her compulsive striving becomes the mode and mantra that she lives by, a trap that frequently becomes a lifelong pattern. The child, unable to remain grounded in the positive nature of her being, now becomes mesmerized by the conditional realities that she has learned will elicit affirmation.

an obsession with self-definition can become a trap if that is all we think about, all we debate. If liberation terminology becomes an end in itself and our only end, it ceases to be a tool of liberation. Terms can be useful, even vital tools, but the house of La Raza that is waiting to be built needs many kinds.

It's no longer Colonel Norwood's time. The dead must not rise – they undermine everything their dying created. Resurrecting Norwood is an attempt to cancel history. I can't allow that, any more than any other human being would. And so all of this is a challenge to me. I was concerned that it might be a deliberate trap.

your pleasure, and that you can't live without it. When the nicotine level in your body falls, the Little Nicotine Monster triggers a pang around the stomach area which the Big Monster interprets as: "I want a cigarette." This is the nicotine trap—the ingenious way that cigarettes turn smokers into slaves. Each cigarette causes the craving for the next, to fill the emptiness caused by the nicotine leaving your body. And so it goes on, ad infinitum.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Last night, the stars on the water were trap doors. The crows with their charred wings are complaining to a hawk. It's time to pack up the sunsets the dawns and move on.

To the thief, everyone's a crook. To the liar, everyone's a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.

Photography turns one and all into fools, including—especially—artists like himself, eager to hunt life and trap as many of its fleeting variables as possible inside a 35 mm frame but doomed to return empty-handed far more often than not.

The only escape from this trap, as far as I can see, is to be skeptical about one's own skepticism: which is what I mean by the New Agnosticism.

If you lead the sucker down a familiar path, he won't catch on when you lead him into a trap.

I knew it was a trap, itchy witch, the demon said, but then a flash of white exploded against the inside of the circle. I felt the bubble go down, leaving a white disk of ash where the carpet had burned away. But I didn't know it was a lethal one, he continued

Harmony crab-walked back. "You're the only one left, Reed. You were right. It was a trap. Michael is a sadist. We leave now, or I'll shoot you on sight next time I see you as one of Bill's brainwashed dolls.

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools..........

Those bastards had driven me into a trap; Cyclops  ate  the trap.

there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still on the floor and waited to see what would happen. Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.