Top 100 Is Trap Quotes
#2. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.
Oliver Burkeman
#3. Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.
Frederick Lenz
#4. As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.
Charles Bukowski
#5. I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.
Lee Trevino
#6. The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career and connect to my body and my spirit.
Mylene Dinh-Robic
#7. I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
Isabel Allende
#8. It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride...
Assegid Habtewold
#9. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
Milan Kundera
#10. To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
Frida Kahlo
#11. The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle.
Paulo Coelho
#12. Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.
Billy Graham
#13. Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.
Irwin Shaw
#14. In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Alexander Smith
#15. Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave? What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remains obsessed, even as our bodies move on?
Noah Hawley
#16. Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
Maud Adams
#17. It is always the same trap," she said gently. "You longed for conversation. The bear craved jokes. The gray wolf missed music. The boar just wanted someone to tell her troubles to. The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.
Leigh Bardugo
#18. What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
Harmony Korine
#19. You have to be careful," Pwnage said, "with people who are puzzles and people who are traps. A puzzle can be solved but a trap cannot. Usually what happens is you think someone's a puzzle until you realize they're a trap. But by then it's too late. That's the trap.
Nathan Hill
#20. Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Al Goldstein
#21. Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King,
Beverly Cleary
#22. Any problem you face in a video game or in life is one of four things: an enemy, obstacle, puzzle, or trap. That's it. Everyone you meet in life is one of those four things.
Nathan Hill
#23. For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
William H Gass
#24. The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
Margaret Mead
#25. Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.
William Gibson
#26. My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.
Joan Miro
#27. A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all ... but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#28. A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.
ASAP Ferg
#29. Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.
Mel Gibson
#30. I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.
Leo Kottke
#31. Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge ... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.
Steve Maraboli
#32. In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.
Christopher Hitchens
#33. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#34. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
Alan W. Watts
#35. I sit here with you now with one sure answer. Love is the most potent bond, the most elaborate trap, the most irresistible object, and the most lethal weapon. I am everything with it, and nothing without it.
Suenammi Richards
#36. Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.
Robert Altman
#37. Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel.
Marie Brennan
#38. A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives
Munia Khan
#39. Your wife is a psycho path. I wouldn't fuck her with your dick. She's probably pull some booby trap shit and shove some razor-blades up her twat to try and slice my cock off.
Emma Chase
#40. Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.
Joseph C. Aldrich
#41. Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?
Milan Kundera
#42. The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap.
Marguerite Beecher
#43. Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that ... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.
Astro Teller
#44. Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing's quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret
Robert M. Pirsig
#45. The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes to, 'Can I write about this?' - which is good and bad.
Riki Lindhome
#46. We often talk about how we are God's "hands and feet," which is true. That being said, we can't fall into the trap of thinking God needs us like we need Him. He's God - which makes the reality that He wants to use us and be in relationship with us an even sweeter, more profound truth.
Mark Hart
#47. I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
John Steinbeck
#48. Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
John Steinbeck
#49. Love is a trap. Don't ever get caught.
Dia Reeves
#50. The only cheese I have in the apartment is a wedge of Brie in the refrigerator and before leaving I place the entire slice--it's a really big rat--along with a sun-dried tomato and a sprinkling of dill, delicately on the trap, setting it.
Bret Easton Ellis
#51. The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
Ben Affleck
#52. me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living.
Christie Golden
#53. Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
Toba Beta
#54. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter
Max Lucado
#55. God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.
Philip K. Dick
#56. The Z-particle Pure energy - no mass at all. It may well be the
smallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy.
Dan Brown
#57. Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
Robert Anthony Kreucher
#58. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians.
G.K. Chesterton
#59. There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap.
And what would that be sir?
Me
Russell T. Davies
#60. But for those who need a system, Chuang Tzu offers the reminder that the fish trap is only needed to catch the fish; once the fish is caught the fish trap is no longer needed so much the better if the fish can be caught without the trap.
Ray Grigg
#61. Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.
Sathya Sai Baba
#62. A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#63. It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.
Eric Samuel Timm
#64. True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.
Peter Kreeft
#65. Have you fallen into the world's trap, following its self-indulgent goals and driven by its self-centered motives? It can happen without you even being aware of it. Make sure Christ is first in your life, and make it your goal to live according to His Word.
Billy Graham
#66. Whose mouse are you?"
Nobody's mouse.
"Where is your mother?"
Inside a cat.
"Where is your father?"
Caught in a trap.
Robert Kraus
#67. Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly
#68. The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.
Charles B. MacDonald
#69. It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
Stephen R. Covey
#70. Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
Ben Stein
#71. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.
Carlos Fuentes
#72. Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of comfort zone your biggest challenge.
Manoj Arora
#73. My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.
Alison Moyet
#74. It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!
Fred Rogers
#75. Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.
LeCrae
#76. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
David Parnas
#77. 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 once.
Jedediah Berry
#78. The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.
Kurt Sutter
#79. Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows." ~Paulo Coelho The
R.K. Lilley
#80. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#81. Knowing where the trap is
that's the first step in evading it.
Frank Herbert
#82. But it is difficult to tell whether something is an oppurtunity or a trap when you are put on the spot.
Olivia Sudjic
#83. AS WITH ALL TRULY wild things, care is necessary in approaching them. Stealth is useless. Wild things recognize stealth for what it is, a lie and a trap. While wild things might play games of stealth, and in doing so may even occasionally fall prey to stealth, they are never truly caught by it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#84. Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.
Seth Godin
#85. Harmony crab-walked back. "You're the only one left, Reed. You were right. It was a trap. Michael is a sadist. We leave now, or I'll shoot you on sight next time I see you as one of Bill's brainwashed dolls.
Kim Harrison
#86. The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?
Dean Wareham
#87. We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us." (p.162)
Joshua David Stone
#89. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#90. I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
Penelope Cruz
#91. The pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.
Donna Tartt
#92. Resentment is when you allow what's eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.
Max Lucado
#93. There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#94. The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.
Betty Friedan
#95. The heart loves without boundaries. It is the mind that can trap the heart with cages constructed by society's rules.
Rhiannon Frater
#96. Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn ... the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.
Mark Lawrence
#97. Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
Robin Thede
#98. Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.
Shams Tabrizi
#99. The greatest trap is living a life based on what other people think. It's
P.G. Lengsfelder
#100. Of course it's a trap
With her, it always is one
Trappy McTrapface
Britomartis jumped from the ledge and landed in a kneeling position, her skirts spread around her in a pool of netting.
(She loves those dramatic entrances. She is such an anime-character wannabe.)
Rick Riordan
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