Trapped Quotes - Page 3

• Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due
  to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Lying, Gay

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• there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fate, Chance

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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• Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mirrors, Waiting, Shadow

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

  David Eagleman

  Home, Reality, Perception

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• When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.

  Muriel Barbery

  Home, Heart, Dark

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.56, Gallic Books

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• All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

  David Guetta

  Artist, Tomorrow, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

  Russell Brand

  Crush, Ordinary, Mediocrity

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• The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Mind, Special

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• We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

  Derren Brown

  People, Goes On, Terrible

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• If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

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  Ram Dass

  Giving Up, Journey, Attachment

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• We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Metaphor, Constructs

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• I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Hate, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Children, Kids, Differences

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Giving Up, Confused, Struggle

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• We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ugly, Empty, Willing

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• 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.

  Charles Stross

  Fun, Crazy, Reflection

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.88, Penguin

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• So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Wall, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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• We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Dream, Regret

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 30, 2012

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• Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Tim Waterstone

  Voice, People, Entering

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• If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.

  Craig Johnson

  Running, Moving, School

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• It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.

  Amy Hempel

  Teacher, Liars, Drinking

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• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  E. J. Gold

  School, Responsibility, Choices

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• Lost in Static 18
  And the storm is closing in now
  Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell
  You're a prisoner of the dark sky
  The propeller blades are still
  And the evil eye of the hurricane's
  Coming in now for the kill

  Mike Oldfield

  Song, Eye, Dark

  Song: Five Miles Out

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• No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

  James S.A. Corey

  Men, Politician, Holy

  James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

  David James Duncan

  Pages, Scripts, Unwritten

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