Traps Quotes · Page 5

“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

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

— William Blake

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

I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.

— Annie Wersching

“My house is full of traps.” Twitter would look like this:”

— Randall Munroe

You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.

— Brad Pitt

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

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays…

— Helio Gracie

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

— Margaret Mead

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a…

— Norman Mailer

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep…

— Kirk Hammett

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

It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and…

— Scott Woods

I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device…

— Stan Brakhage

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there…

— David Levithan

US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong…

— Edward Snowden

Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was…

— Ally Carter

[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But…

— Rowan Atkinson

But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the…

— Paul Monette

You shouldn't hate another women because she is beautiful and you shouldn't hate yourself because another women is beautiful. Like, that's the…

— Cameron Diaz

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is…

— Russell Lynes

We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight.…

— Octavio Paz

There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing…

— Noam Chomsky

Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes…

— Harry Shearer

Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which…

— Rem Koolhaas

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

— Francis Chan

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

— Robert Altman

The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness.

— John Bosco

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Thomas Hobbes

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

— Maureen O'Hara

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Jean Genet