Traps Quotes · Page 4

One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.

— Carolyn Keene

One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves

— Niccolo Machiavelli

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

— Lindsay Lohan

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

— Franklin P. Adams

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

— Milan Kundera

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

— Judah Smith

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own…

— Roderick Thorp

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

— Mark Lawrence

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

— Bill Austin

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that…

— Dallas Willard

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

— Paulo Coelho

I definitely see myself making classic R&B records with somewhat of a trendy vibe to it. I definitely wouldn't say trap.

— Mario

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are…

— Kate Upton

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing…

— Clifford D. Simak

If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If…

— Steve Pavlina

Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are…

— Harry Shearer

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps…

— Yanni

Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all…

— Bob Hope

Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others…

— Michael Lewis

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the…

— Philip Yancey

I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize…

— Vikram Chandra

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise…

— Al Gore

The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than…

— Manu Joseph

I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in…

— Tennessee Williams

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which…

— George Eliot

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not…

— Margaret Mead

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by…

— Og Mandino

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

— Don DeLillo

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

— Rumi

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

— Willie Stargell

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

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

— Janet Frame

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

— Anonymous

Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

I just feel like a whole lot of traps are being set up that leaves me feeling helpless.

— Anonymous