Traps Quotes

456 quotes by 373 authors

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes… — Tim O'Brien
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our… — Julio Cortazar
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… — May Sarton
the world is the cradle and your trap. — Chuck Palahniuk
People fall so in love with their pain, they canâ€™t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk
Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players. — Milan Kundera
He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed… — Etgar Keret
If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at… — Jedediah Berry
Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me!… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be. — Tennessee Williams
These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in… — Sherman Alexie
Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trapâ€”I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them… — John Irving
Whatâ€™s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome… — Steve Aylett
I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our… — Steve Harvey
The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without… — John C. Maxwell
Trapped like a trap in a trap — Dorothy Parker
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" she… — William Goldman
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap. — Carolyn Keene

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