You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to… — Elton John Copy Share Image
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them… — Bobby Orr Copy Share Image
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills. — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
“How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what’s beyond measure? That’s a sickness. That’s a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner. — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
![“Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]…” quote by Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05d/rem-koolhaas-5371_bridges_lagos-was-a-city-that-had-been-turned-ag_1402665.jpg)
![“If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start…” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a56/john-lennon-322_artistic_if-sean-doesn-t-see-me-a-few-days-or-if_1065306.jpg)
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