Traps Quotes

• The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Rejection, Meaningful Life

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

  China Mieville

  Challenges, Knows, Ifs

  China Mieville (2000). “King Rat”, p.254, Macmillan

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• There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

  Raymond Chandler

  The Long Goodbye ch. 12 (1953)

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• Trapped like a trap in a trap

  Dorothy Parker

  Trapped

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.199, Penguin

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• Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

  Frank Herbert

  Knowing, Steps, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.44, Penguin

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• Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Honesty, Men, People

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.227, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Worry

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• The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Forget

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• A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

  John Steinbeck

  Feet, Answers, Travels With Charley

  John Steinbeck (2012). “Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.293, Penguin

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• The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Lions, Foxes, Protect

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Liars often set their own traps.

  Aesop

  Liars

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Inspiration

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• Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

  Jane Fonda

  Mistake, Consistency, Admitting

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• The thing that gives you power also traps you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

  William Blake

  Foxes

  William Blake (2013). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)”, p.52, e-artnow

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• Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

  Max Lucado

  Hunters, Bitterness, Snares

  Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

  Milan Kundera

  Hate, Human Nature, Binding

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• Research can trap you into the past.

  William Bernbach

  Business, Past, Research

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  We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Life, Thinking, Dying Slowly

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• Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Arrows, Cupid

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes and a Sketch of the Life of Shakespeare”, p.128

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• Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Obsolete

  "Why French Women Have More Sex Than Their American Sisters" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• 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

  Artist, Devil, Popular Song

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• There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

  Russell T Davies

  Party, Turns

  "Doctor Who Confidential". Documentary TV Series, May 13, 2006.

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• You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

  Elton John

  Wings, Bird, Cages

  Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves

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• There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pitfalls, Way, Danger

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