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Quotes About Traps

Si he de arrastrar mi trampa, me cuidaré de que sea ligera y no me pellizque en una parte vital
~ Thoreau Henry David
There are few traps that cannot be turned against their designers.
~ Timothy Zahn
Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry
~ Carlos Castaneda
Okay, little car, you are protesting roads. They are death traps for animals. They are environmentally unsound impervious surfaces that cause runoff. I understand this. But could we protest in the summer?
~ Carrie Jones
I think that the first 'Saw' was really more of a psychological film about two people stuck in a room, and the traps and games that fans seem to embrace so much now were quite a small portion of the film.
~ James Wan
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
~ Bhartrhari
A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.
~ Johnny Moss
and impatience sets traps for us, and prepares regrets that sometimes last all our lives.
~ Upton Sinclair
The primitive races of mankind were terrified by the hydra that flew upon the water, by the dragon that belched fire, by the griffin, that aerial monster with wings on an eagle and a tiger's claws — fearful creatures beyond the control of men. But man sets his traps, the miraculous traps conceived by human intelligence, and in the end he captured them.
~ Victor Hugo
TABLE 1-1. Levels of the three variables that characterize four system traps (Holling et al. 2002; Allison and Hobbs 2004; Angeler et al. 2020). Capital Connectivity Resilience Rigidity trap High High High Poverty trap Low Low Low Eroding trap Low–eroding High High Isolation trap High Low–none Low
~ Lance H. Gunderson
Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!
~ TemitOpe Ibrahim
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Do not let perfection and order become your masters! These are the two most dangerous traps set for the spiritual Murid. True spirituality proceeds from an honoring and awareness of chaos and imperfection. Who would dare untangle a rainforest?
~ Laurence Galian
The Deccan Traps volcanoes spilled as much as a half million cubic miles of basalt over an area equal to half of present-day India. In places, the basalt lies more than a mile deep.
~ Greg Breining
Real spiritual growth comes only through discipline and perseverance. In other words, it comes through sticking with it. One of the traps for all of us, however, is substituting activity for genuine fellowship with God. I
~ Greg Laurie
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Of birds I know that they have wings to fly with, of fish that they have fins to swim with, of wild beasts that they have feet to run with. For feet there are traps
~ Wayne W. Dyer
No wire with teeth reached out to trap him for enemy guns. The soldiers who marched with him had seen too much war to make a lot of unnecessary noise, but they grinned and checked their rifles. They knew what they were gaining here.
~ Harry Turtledove
Was it that these particular occult streets had been made, then hidden? Their names leaked as traps in an elaborate double-bluff, so that no one could go except those who knew that such traps were actually destinations? Or were there really no streets there when the traps were set? Perhaps these cul-de-scas were residues, yawned into illicit existence when the atlases were drawn up by liars.
~ China Mieville
Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students.
~ Henry Blake Fuller
You remember sitting, don't you?" Esme said, mocking. "Shhh!" Anton sniped. "I'm trying to figure this out." "Yes, sitting is very distracting," I said. "Getting blown up in this game definitely is distracting," he said. And when he noticed me rolling my eyes at him, he muttered. "Do you honestly think he'd set traps inside his own home base when the outside is so well guarded?" I asked.
~ Unknown
Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?
~ Paulo Coelho