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Quotes About Traps

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.
~ Paulo Coelho
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
~ William Shakespeare
Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin.
~ William Shakespeare
When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.
~ Unknown
CALLICLES: There is no end to the rubbish this fellow speaks. Tell me, Socrates, aren't you ashamed at your age of laying these verbal traps and counting it a god-send if a man makes a slip of the tongue?
~ Plato
You do know that the earth is round." "The earth might be, but human nature isn't. It has caverns and abysses and all sorts of traps.
~ Louise Penny
Years ago, before the internet and electronic ways to investigate intellectual property thefts, publishers would put traps into books. Fictitious entries in reference books, to catch copyright thieves. Lillian Virginia Mountweazel is the most famous.
~ Louise Penny
El problema es que cuando vuelves a la vida normal, todas las rutinas, las marcas del día a día parecen mentiras sin sentido. Todo es sospechoso, una trampa para adormecernos, para volver a arroparnos en la plácida inexorabilidad del tiempo.
~ Unknown
They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So
~ John Bunyan
Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Omul este singurul parazit care-È™i preg?teÈ™te capcana, îi pune momeala, apoi calc? de bun?voie în ea.
~ John Steinbeck
Il petrolio è la merda del diavolo, non ti fidare di quello che sembra una fortuna. Perché è peggio di una trappola per scimmie. E sempre quello che per i ricchi è una fortuna, per i poveri è una disgrazia.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
Fear traps your mind.
~ Unknown
The second imperative for transitioning leaders, then, is to identify key stakeholders and begin to forge productive working relationships with them. Here, too, there are two traps to avoid: focusing on vertical relationships and mistaking titles for authority.
~ Unknown
What will it take for you to reach the break-even point more quickly? What are some traps you might encounter, and how can you avoid them? What can you do to create virtuous cycles and build momentum in your new role? What types of transitions are you experiencing? Which are you finding most challenging, and why?
~ Unknown
So entangled are we in our own designs that the concurrent and often conflicting plots of our families, friends, and enemies may come to us as surprises suddenly unraveled or traps suddenly sprung... If no one can see into another's heart, it is probably because no one comes close enough, or stays long enough, or listens loud enough over the thump of their own, to see and hear.
~ Unknown
Mummies unraveled and put on new wraps. Spiders found corners and spun silky traps. Count Dracula grinned and slicked back his hair. Frankenstein's bride cried, "I've nothing to wear!
~ Unknown
5G, so-called aid packages that create debt traps for nations receiving such aid, and a sophisticated concept known as the "Three Warfares" that combines media, psychological, and legal system operations.
~ Newt Gingrich
Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
I'm the son of Yancy and Nita Allen, but more importantly, I'm a child of God. I realized that none of the rest of it was that important. Most days, that's enough. Sometimes I still fall into that trap of feeling sorry for myself, but it doesn't last long.
~ Unknown
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
~ Ecclesiastes 9:12