Top 100 Quotes About Traps
#1. Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.
Travis Bradberry
#2. Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.
Isaac Hayes
#3. She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.
Margot Livesey
#4. Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour
caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy
are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other's mystery. Each other's pain.
Nadeem Aslam
#5. the people in your life are either enemies, obstacles, puzzles, or traps.
Nathan Hill
#6. He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.
Luis Sepulveda
#7. Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.
Paulo Coelho
#8. As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money).
Rose George
#9. The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#10. I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.
Janet Frame
#11. Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.
Bryant McGill
#12. Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.
Ashish Patel
#13. All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere
Cyril Clarke
#14. They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So
John Bunyan
#15. There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.
George Lois
#17. C is not clean - the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.
Erik Naggum
#18. Religion, therefore - despite the correctness of its insistence that something needs to be done about our relationship with God - remains unqualified bad news: it traps us in a game we will always and everywhere lose.
Robert Farrar Capon
#19. Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
Samuel Richardson
#20. To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there's excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.
Glenn Haybittle
#21. I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps.
Alan Arkin
#22. May the wind rise under your wings, may the sun always be at your backs, and may you catch your prey napping. And, Wolf-Eyes, I hope that when you find the one who left your paws in his traps, you do not kill him too quickly. Both
Christopher Paolini
#23. My plans had seemed straightforward, then my road kept dipping and turning and I kept getting caught in its traps. No I felt mired in mud in the middle of nowhere. Lost.
Maria V. Snyder
#24. Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.
Bob Hope
#26. Babies weren't babies - they were land mines; bear traps; wasp nests. They were a noise, which was sometimes even not a noise, but merely a listening for a noise; they were a damp, chalky smell; they were the heaving, jerky, sticky manifestation of not-sleep.
Kelly Link
#27. For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
Jeff Merkley
#28. Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
Frederick Lenz
#29. I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff. I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.
Woody Allen
#30. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
James C. Collins
#31. 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
#32. Satan wants to lure us into his traps, and he knows exactly what kind of "bait" will appeal to us. He knows what we're like, and he will attack us exactly where we are the weakest.
Billy Graham
#33. Yuri Gagarin had a much more reliable and safe ship than I do. And Soviet ships were death traps.
Andy Weir
#34. I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
Les Dawson
#35. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.
Ernest Cline
#36. Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
Elizabeth Warren
#37. ...it was important to hit the ground running and not fall into the lifestyle traps of newly found free time.
Alex Adam
#38. Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.
Bob Dylan
#39. Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.
Elena Ferrante
#40. His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us.
Ernest Hemingway,
#41. Can we stop talking about penis fly traps for like two seconds? This is serious!
Kandi Steiner
#42. 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 those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use.
This is one of his death traps.
Suzanne Collins
#43. To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.
Wendell Johnson
#44. World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps
Rohinton Mistry
#45. Don't blame the hunter if you aren't paying attention enough to spot the traps.
T.T. Escurel
#46. Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#47. I want your hands on my head."
I nod and edge back to make room for him. "Does it calm your racing thoughts?"
He shakes his head, then takes my hand and spreads it open over his wide chest, his voice textured as he traps my gaze with his. "It calms me here.
Katy Evans
#48. When you know your life mission and life goal, you will be better able to avoid the life traps
Sunday Adelaja
#49. Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him
except instructors and their hapless students.
Henry Blake Fuller
#50. 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 scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you
Carlo Gambino
#51. No women does anything by accident. Brushing against you, trying to pass by you, bending over to pick something up...all traps man. All traps.
Van Krishna
#52. Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#53. The worst traps in life are set by the ones we love.
Jenny Goebel
#54. If you love God, surrender to God, you can live in the moment, free of anxiety. Without God? You look ahead and see traps and pitfalls, you look behind and you see loss and death.
Suzanne Morrison
#55. It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of our forebears. Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.
Jerry A. Coyne
#57. Well, you know what they say about traps." "Be sure the reward is worth the risk?" "Aye.
Carl James
#58. We all build walls to feel safe. But they often turn into traps that limit our experience.
Katie Pierson
#59. The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#60. Europe was best described, to his mind, as an elaborate engine for dissociating the confined American from that indispensable knowledge, and was accordingly only rendered bearable by these occasional stations of relief, traps for the arrest of wandering western airs.
Henry James
#61. The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#62. Love is a necessary evil that traps you in illusory gossamer
Samreen Ahsan
#63. It's a really nice house..."
"Yeah, full of booby traps and cameras and little robots that pop out of the closets at night and murder you in your sleep."
She burst out laughing. "Good point.
Elle Kennedy
#64. Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible.
Robert M. Pirsig
#65. This isn't Dungeon & Dragons, dude. Just because I'm wearing black doesn't mean I have the Find & Remive Traps skill.
John G. Hartness
#66. Punishment - shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable - traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them to get jobs and homes and decent lives makes it possible for many of them to stop.
Johann Hari
#67. Love is a blanket that keeps you warm, not one that traps and suffocates you. You never learned that lesson, Rina. You never paid it any attention no matter how many times I explained. You kept pulling that blanket over my head.
Kristen Ashley
#68. Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
St. Jerome
#69. Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.
Nenia Campbell
#70. Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare.
'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?'
'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.
Ally Carter
#71. Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
Richard Armour
#72. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.
Oswald Chambers
#74. They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.
Bill O'Reilly
#75. Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#76. Always check for traps, left is always right unless there's a middle, always put your healer in the best armor and wear your magic rings on your toes instead of your fingers ... What else? ... Always have rope.
Kate Milford
#77. I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one
Annie Dillard
#78. Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps - human beings do that, too.
Robin Silverman
#80. I order to avoid falling into the product junkie traps, it's good to know your go-to styling products.
Monica Millner
#81. He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.
Ken Kesey
#82. Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.
Bernard Cornwell
#83. Those who deal with customers on a regular basis should be circumspect whenever they open their "traps." It is better not to say anything at all than to say, and later, pay!
J. N. HALM
#84. Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.
Aldous Huxley
#85. Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.
Roberto Bolano
#86. We begin to lie to ourselves about our situation, and start feeling trapped--blaming society usually commences. But people seldomly realize that we are society, therefore we set the traps up for ourselves.
Tristan Stone Williams
#87. The palace of Ephebe is a labyrinth. I know. There are traps. No one gets in without a guide." "How does the guide get in?" said Vorbis. "I assume he guides himself," said the general.
Terry Pratchett
#88. Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while preparing you for nothing better.
Scott Adams
#89. Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
Maxwell Maltz
#90. The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.
Elena Ferrante
#91. Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.
Kimberly Morgan
#92. Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential.
Mark Paytress
#93. There's plenty of food here," Erik said dismissively. "We have fish traps and eel traps, we net wildfowl and eat well. And the prospect of silver and gold buys a lot of wheat, barley, oats, meat, fish, and ale.
Bernard Cornwell
#94. Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.
Neil Gaiman
#95. I don't have any pictures of the lovely Aboriginal people I met because they think it traps their spirit, and if they're correct then Facebook is basically creating a living hell. Which is really not that surprising, now that I say it out loud.
Jenny Lawson
#96. If you know where you are putting your foot , you will see any traps and be able to avoid them
Paulo Coelho
#97. Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
Frank Herbert
#98. Perhaps the gods punish us by bringing us face to face with our own foolish mistakes, condemning us to watch our children fall into the same traps that crippled us.
Robin Hobb
#99. The light remains, because "feel" is a word full of traps.
Paulo Coelho
#100. The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
