Traps Quotes

456 Traps quotes by 373 unique authors

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’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 trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them… — John Irving
What’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
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final… — Frank O'Hara
Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero? — Milan Kundera
You trap yourself sometimes, by thinking desire and need is love. Love is something far more precious, but something far more fragile. As fragile as… — Virginia C. Andrews
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. — Jane Austen
There will be guards,” Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.” “Magicians can do… — Rick Riordan
Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But… — Rick Riordan
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap. — L. Ron Hubbard
I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she… — Elizabeth Wein
I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still… — Charlaine Harris
Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of… — Suzanne Collins

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