Entrap Quotes

#1. Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Sri Chinmoy

#2. Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.

Tahir Shah

#3. We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

William Boyd

#4. Sir 8:14 Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy words.

Various

#5. A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

Hilary Mantel

#6. While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us.

Slavoj Zizek

#7. 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

#8. He had no right to look so accommodating when I knew the sort of man he really was; the sort who sacrificed his own son in the name of science, the sort who used his daughter to entrap a Prince of Hell. I'd known demons more human than Adam Harper.

Pippa DaCosta

#9. The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young in order to entrap them in otherworldly world.

Nadeem Aslam

#11. One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

Saint Francis De Sales

#12. Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

John Calvin

#13. The ego of the mind can entrap you in a web of dilution.

Steven Redhead

#14. The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

William Shakespeare

#15. - Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?
- Yes, and many others - all of them but you.

Charles Dickens

#16. A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. Every form of strength is also a weakness. Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them.

Michael Lewis

#18. Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Peter James West

#19. The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.

Thomas Paine

#20. The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

#21. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness ... and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#22. I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable,

Gavin McInnes

#23. You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.

Noel Gallagher

#24. If you had said before the game we would get three points, I would have said you'd had too much gin.

Terry Butcher

#25. Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.

Sara Craven

#26. Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your glory.

Anthony Liccione

#27. New birth, new blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

Johannes Brahms

#29. Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.

Anne Ursu

#30. To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

Henry Allen Ironside

#31. Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.

Andrew Asnes

#32. The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.

Pete Sessions