Trapped Quotes - Page 17

• Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

  Keanu Reeves

  Acting, Getting What You Want, Dominance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

  George R. R. Martin

  Moving, Men, Past

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3526, Bantam

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• Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Emotional, Law, Important

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.94, Prometheus Books

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• Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

  Harlan Ellison

  Perfection, Excellence, Waking

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• How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Shadow, Want

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• There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Silence, Awful, Terror

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.459, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Fire, Different

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Silence, Pages, Awful

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• Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Would Be, Alive

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.349, Scholastic Inc.

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• I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life: I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Running, Moving

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• you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worst Nightmares, World, Nightmare

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• Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other. 

  Ai Yazawa

  Mean, Men, Names

  "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.

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• I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

  Jill Stein

  Sorry, People, Abusive Relationship

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.

  Jackson Pearce

  Beautiful, Punishment, Perfect

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• Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

  Bill Pullman

  Hypocrisy, Idyllic, Towns

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• Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you

  Myles Munroe

  Self Improvement, Your Future, Within You

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• Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out

  R. A. Lafferty

  Learning, Topography, Consciousness

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• You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

  Terry Gilliam

  Interesting, Stories, Reputation

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• 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

  Ideas, Way, Needs

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• Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Spring, Cutting

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• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Hero, Burning, Remember

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• But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.

  Saint Timothy

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

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• I'm here," she said, skidding to a stop. "Can we go now?" Sebastian insisted on helping her on with the coat. "I don't think anyone's ever helped me with my coat before," Clary observed, freeing the hair that had gotten trapped under her collar. "Well, maybe waiters. Were you ever a waiter?" "No, but I was brought up by a Frenchwoman," Sebastian reminded her. "It involves an even more rigorous course of training.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Hair, Training

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

  David Bryant

  Missionary, Incentives, Care

  David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

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• Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

  Tina Weymouth

  Found, Hard

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