Traps Quotes

456 quotes by 373 authors

You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to… — Carlo Gambino
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.… — Laozi
Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ...… — L. Ron Hubbard
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black… — Helen Dunmore
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned… — Tony Grisoni
Donâ€™t judge yourself by othersâ€™ standardsâ€¦have your own. And donâ€™t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world… — Berry Gordy
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures… — Robert Briffault
A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps. — Johnny Moss
Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of… — Kerry Thornley
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird — Josephine Hart
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And… — Lauren F. Winner
By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner… — Tarthang Tulku
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But… — Paul Desmond
The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books… — Charlie Kaufman
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are — Guy Finley
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Eddington
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role. — Helio Gracie
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
Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left. — Kenwa Mabuni
Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to… — Jada Pinkett Smith

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