Quotes About Traps

I think: In the end, he remained hidden all his life. In spite of the great departure, the ambitious effort to forge a new existence, he fell back into all the same traps: shame, the impossibility of sharing a love that endures.

The devil catches most souls in a golden net

Somewhere in the recumbent solitudes, the motionless but teeming millions of books, lost in two dozen turns right, three dozen turns left, down aisles, through corridors, toward dead ends, locked doors, half-empty shelves, somewhere in the literary soot of Dickens's London, or Dostoevsky's Moscow or the steppes beyond, somewhere in the vellumed dust of atlas or Geographic, sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.

While I see many hoof-marks going in, I see none coming out…. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.

I thought of my favorite business analogy—the mouse who says let me out of the trap, I've decided I don't want the cheese.' There are a million business traps. You can get sloppy, you can get alcoholic, you can get megalomania, you can not understand your own limitations. There are a million ways to gum it up.

También sabemos que cualquier constelación es una trampa del pensamiento. A veces nos complacemos en trazar líneas que unen puntos, fechas, estrellas, sucesos. Entonces creemos que hay algo en común entre esos sucesos, estrellas, fechas y puntos, sin darnos cuenta de que el único parentesco es el que hemos dibujado nosotros con tendencioso lápiz. Una última consideración: la oscuridad del cielo debe ser entendida como un don.

your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.

There will be guards," Bast said. "And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods." "Magicians can do that?" I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. "Hang on. What about traps?" He frowned. "Traps?" "Didn't Egyptian tombs have traps?" "Well…sometimes. But this isn't a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—" "Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.

Nets can be traps. But they can also be safety nets. You just have to know when to jump in.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

rats?" "I just said that." "But the attic is clean." "Well, okay, we've got tidy rats!" "No rats." "Karl, I heard them last night." "Maybe plumbing," Karl probed; "maybe boards." "Maybe rats! Will you buy the damn traps and quit arguing?" Bustling away, Karl, said, "Yes! I go now!" "No not now, Karl! The

A problem has a rhythm of its own, just like a piece of music," the Professor said. "Once you get the rhythm, you get the sense of the problem as a whole, and you can see where the traps might be waiting.

A problem has a rhythm of its own, just like a piece of music. Once you get the rhythm, you get the sense of the problem as a whole, and you can see where the traps might be waiting.

A problem has a rhythm of its own, just like a piece of music," the professor said. "Once you get the rhythm, you get the sense of the problem as a whole, and you can see where the traps might be waiting.

But minds find ways to protect themselves, build fortifications, and some of those walls become traps.

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.