Trap Quotes - page 3

Lacan, Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction. (Camille Paglia)
People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? View quote
Don DeLillo
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live. View quote
Andrzej Sapkowski
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world. View quote
David Lodge
The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry, which led to many consumers becoming trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford. View quote
Al Franken
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs. View quote
Charles Stross
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch. View quote
Clay Aiken
There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap. (Russell T Davies)
A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it. View quote
John Steinbeck
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. View quote
John Steinbeck
If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. View quote
William Blake
I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl ... leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay. View quote
Björk
You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings. View quote
Demi Moore
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold. View quote
Andy Partridge
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape. View quote
Anton Chekhov
I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness-she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. (Homer)
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge. View quote
Dave Barry
I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic, and idiotic, but I believe that approach is a trap, since a movie like this might relish being the object of such bland invectives. Instead, let me try a few that can't possibly be misconstrued as twisted praise: unfunny, boring, torturous, and unwatchable. ... [N]o movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film - Directed By Troy Miller. View quote
James Berardinelli
Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it. View quote
Frank Herbert
Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatic about [the go to statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a simple trick, by a simple form of coding discipline! View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra