Quotes About Traps

Maybe it was the world that was screwy, that set traps and snares and forced people to make bad choices.

Whole world was nothing but a big rattrap. It set baits for people by offering riches and joys, shelter and food, heat and clothing exactly as the rattrap offered cheese and pork. As soon as anyone let himself be tempted to touch the bait, the rattrap closed in on him, and then everything came to an end.

It boots nothing to avoid his snares, for they are ever beset with other snares

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

El pretender que la cultura sea un fenómeno exclusivamente humano conlleva serios y graves problemas similares a los inherentes a la no aceptación de la evolución biológica; pensar que la cultura emergió de la nada del brazo del género Homo es caer nuevamente en una vieja trampa.

In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.

Also characteristic is the spareness of the punctuation (except for parentheses), the controlled patterning of the lines and section breaks. Thematically, Atwood here explores many of the concerns that have continued to intrigue her: the traps of reality, myth, language, and the pernicious roles we play, the cage of the self, and above all, the nature of human perception.

He showed me the chopper. He said, 'I'm going to cut all your traps.' He had the chopper in his hand. He wasn't an easy fellow, I'll tell you.' 'He wasn't what?' says Richardson, flummoxed again. On Isle Madame, 'not easy' means not easily pushed around, stubborn, forceful in pursuing what one wants.

the Zurich Axioms are about the world of money, and that is a world of human events. Human events absolutely cannot be predicted, by any method, by anybody. One of the traps money-world prophets fall into is that they forget they are dealing with human behavior.

from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

Bad guys are everywhere, just avoid their traps

Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

The fear of death came and went, though right now her life force was strong. But she had never forgotten what went through her mind when she balanced on the railing of the bridge. Life wasn't just something that took care of itself. There were big black holes you could fall into with long, sharp spikes at the bottom, monstrous traps.

There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

They don't really teach you how to be famous and a lot of people don't realise that this game comes with a lot of traps. So I'm just looking after myself, looking after my health and making sure I don't fall into those traps.

I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.