Caught In Quotes

#1. If we were fossils of two snails
caught in a rock for millions of years.
Would we know we were together?

Natasha Tsakos

#2. Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've got reality and then there's the miraculous and the transcendent. And once you start, time stops.

Carolyn See

#3. Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#4. Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch ...

Joseph Heller

#5. I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

Kathryn Lasky

#6. The taste of good coffee, so deep and complex that it was almost a crime to describe it by a single name. The sound of rain falling on the pavement, the smell of petrichor and moistened loam. The color of a single raven's feather in the sunlight, rainbows caught in ebony - ==========

Anonymous

#7. .....it's hard to describe a psychosoteric battle at close quarters..... Think of those tennis-ball firing machines, but loaded with hand-grenades trapped in a shipping container, on a ship caught in a force-ten gale.

David Mitchell

#8. One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Dalai Lama

#9. The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Cole Alpaugh

#10. Her eyes lifted, meeting his. Breath caught in her throat. She saw a fire of his own there. Then a twinkle of gold. Was that his lion? Was it interested in her and her tiger?

Milly Taiden

#11. And when I say "exploded" I mean "interacted catastrophically with the topography of space/time in ways we're not entirely able to explain," but "explode" gets the gist of it, particularly with regard to what would happen to a human caught in it.

John Scalzi

#12. Forgive me for my sappiness, but it's the only means I have to convey the molecular destruction I experienced caught in the vision of his smile.

Dan Skinner

#13. Grounding is most effective when you have some place to go. When you know where you are going, grounding brings strength and confidence, when you're stagnant you get caught in the past.

Tony Curl

#14. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

Shelley Berman

#16. The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

Ali Khamenei

#17. Caught in the moorless place between young adulthood and middle age, we were just learning how to forgive ourselves.

Chloe Benjamin

#18. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

Adam S. McHugh

#19. One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Marvin J. Ashton

#20. Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Anna Deavere Smith

#21. Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Saint Augustine

#22. May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#23. How you, a weak boy caught in the middle of a storm, both in reality and metaphorically, would risk your life to save some girl - some girl who tortured you, ignored you, destroyed you.

J.X. Burros

#24. I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.

Alice Cooper

#25. I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

Rodney Dangerfield

#26. All those moments between those seconds. Timeless. Their love would always be alive; a living, beating heart, but just caught in a moment. Caught in their time. Maybe that's all they were. Just a time in love. Just a time in an affair.

Stylo Fantome

#27. It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

Emma Goldman

#28. A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell

Anonymous

#29. A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.

Viktor E. Frankl

#30. The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#31. Her fingertips reached to trace the damage, but he grasped her hand with his own. He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her lashes.

Kelly Creagh

#32. Beads of blood defied gravity, hanging in the air like drops of dew caught in a web.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#33. It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark ... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

Kim Elizabeth

#34. This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

Morris Chestnut

#35. Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.

Claire Messud

#36. A WORD TO THE WISE
Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
never get caught in its snare.
Remember, the only acceptable case
for being in any particular place
is having no business there.

Piet Hein

#37. Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

Rupert Holmes

#38. Maybe younger than the thirty he looked, still caught in style over substance.

Mary Hughes

#39. Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#40. I am caught in a Mark Twain shame spiral.

Jenny Lawson

#41. The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Edwin Edwards

#42. The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

Octavian Paler

#43. How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to ...

Doris Lessing

#44. As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

Henry Giroux

#45. His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?

Lorrie Moore

#46. Alice jumped from flagstone to flagstone, her face caught in the rainlight glow, her hand grasping for a touch of gold. The towns excitement was contagious, and the air was so thick with promise Alice could almost bite into it.

Tahereh Mafi

#47. When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

Anurag Kashyap

#48. Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

Jose Saramago

#49. What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Henry David Thoreau

#50. There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.

Noorilhuda

#51. Everyone's honest till they're caught in a lie.

Pierce Brown

#52. Wouldve came back for you, I just needed time to do what I had to do. Caught in the life, I cant let it go. Whether thats right, I wont ever know. But here goes nothin.

Drake

#53. Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

Marcelene Cox

#54. Millennia ago, some genius discovered that such wiggles as fish and
rabbits could be caught in nets. Much later, some other genius thought
of catching the world in a net.

Alan W. Watts

#55. He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Dave Malloy

#56. The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end ... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#57. Free from desire, you realize the mystery
caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Lao-Tzu

#58. Does she think she can keep fucking with my head and weaving her devious webs thinking I'll always get caught in them? She's toying with my lust for her, my obsession, and I keep letting her.

Shantaye Brown

#59. Now, please understand that I didn't want to do any of this crap. None of these choices were mine. Like kids across the nation I was caught in circumstances beyond my control, and I felt that my choices were bad, worse, and worst.

Mark Garrison

#60. The blue eyes watched the Texan as his python skin boots took him into the dimness of the hall of doors and his escape from Corazon's ICU was a clip clopping stride of broken confidence caught in the rebellious lighting of a cigarette.

Luke Taylor

#61. I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric ...

Robert Penn Warren

#62. Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside."
"Oh."
"A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?

Brian Selznick

#63. She always stood so trim and erect, and you had the feeling that all her grace and softness was caught in the rigor of an idea which you could not define.

Robert Penn Warren

#64. You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.

George C. Marshall

#65. Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

Sparky Anderson

#66. I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat ...

John Geddes

#67. One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

Frederick Hart

#68. The other side of love is hate; the other side of love is jealousy. So if a woman gets caught in hate and jealousy, all the beauty of love dies and she is left only with poison in her hands. She will poison herself and she will poison everybody who is around. To

Osho

#69. In the book A Wrinkle in Time, it says that time is like a big old rumpled blanket. What I'd like is to be caught in one of those wrinkles. Tucked away. Hidden in a small tight fold.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#70. Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Helen Waddell

#71. That all ended when Uncle Len was caught in the locker room of the corporate fitness center getting a blowjob from a young guy who worked in accounting.

Darien Cox

#72. Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Margaret Atwood

#73. That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.

Lauren Tarshis

#74. And just like that, I was caught in another moment of awe. Even the back of the man was enough to make my legs quake, but what stilled me was the stunning ink he wore

Melissa Jane

#75. Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King

#76. Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

Matthew Reilly

#77. Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#78. It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#79. This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in the rythm of his words, proppelled by the substance of his dreams.
These songs would be their story and these lyrics their home.

Leila Aboulela

#80. What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Robert Redford

#81. Wait." Shay clasped my arm, turning me toward him. "Calla, you know, right?"
"Know what?" I asked, caught in the mystery of his eyes.
"That I love you too.

Andrea Cremer

#82. His eyes were like galaxies, and everyone could get lost in them. How many stars flickered there, no one knew, but every time he glanced upon someone, a new star ignited, a new star was caught in the gravity of his stare.

Dean F. Wilson

#83. A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#84. Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

Sara Teasdale

#85. The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#86. As Christians we have a responsibility toward the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden, and the many innocent people around the world who are caught in wars, natural disasters, and situations beyond their control.

Billy Graham

#87. I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.

Sprague Grayden

#88. Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.

Frank Capra

#89. Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!

Stefan Emunds

#90. My breath caught in wonder and surprise and I remembered that during the darkest of hours, God is.

Lisa Samson

#91. It is obvious, by the sounds of the dizzy, hysterical laughter that you start to exhale when you're an adult and you have very few friends and only rarely have fun, that they are caught in a bubble of their own awesomeness and won't be leaving the living room any time soon.

Abigail Tarttelin

#92. She glanced at the man quickly. "Thank you." She meant to say more, but something was caught in her throat. Her eyes stung. "Weep not, proud Diana," Maximus murmured. "The moon will not allow it." "No." She agreed, swiping fiercely at her cheeks. "There's no need for tears yet.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#93. He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was ... I wanted the wolf to devour me.

Colleen Houck

#94. I destroyed her life and then got caught in her wake.
And I realize now that it's exactly where I'm meant to be.

K.A. Tucker

#95. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Nenia Campbell

#96. It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

Lewis Grizzard

#97. Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

Michael Ende

#98. Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Jacques Lacan

#99. I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

Leonard Susskind

#100. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater