Traps Quotes - Page 25

• No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Ruts, Impossible

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Courage to Be Free: Discover Your Original Fearless Self”, p.99, Weiser Books

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• It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold.

  Norman Angell

  War, Mean, Men

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• I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Children, Military

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• And remember one fundamental law of life. If they are hostile, they have hate towards us, sooner or later they are going to fall into my trap, because hate can turn into love very easily, just as love can become hate very easily.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Hate, Life Changing

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Docks

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• Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Goal, Mind, Quagmire

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• Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.

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  Ram Dass

  Wise, Spiritual, Order

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• Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Heart, Enemy

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• Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Congratulations, Thinking, Weasels

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Interview, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Stupid

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• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

  T. E. Lawrence

  People, Honor, Mesopotamia

  "Report on Mesopotamia". The Sunday Times, August 22, 1920.

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• I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under their car? 'Cause cops don't have cameras under the cars, they get you for throwing stuff out the window! If you got a trap door under your car, boom! You would run over it. It would be genius.

  Kellan Lutz

  Running, Doors, Car

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  Laini Taylor

  Moving, Fall, Hard Times

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• The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

  Charles B. Macdonald

  Mistake, Pride, Golf

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• I have dedicated my time here on earth to find the tools that can help each of us experience an extraordinary quality of life. I do believe that such a life can only be found by living one's true passion. Without passion, an individual gets caught in the trap of making a living instead of designing a life. When we fall into the trap of getting up each day to reenact an "ordinary" existence, we find ourselves at a level that is merely one of survival.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Fall, Passion

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• There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Way, Prison

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• I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

  Umberto Eco

  Fall, Writing, Years

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• And the other thing for the sort of posher kids was a sort of lethal scooter, you know. One of the things that you just push along with your - really heavy, lethal, you know, trap your fingers in and every bit of metal got rusty very quickly. And the girls I seem to remember they had a thing like a broomstick with a horse's head on the top which they sat astride.

  Nick Lowe

  Girl, Horse, Kids

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Forever, Littles

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• Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

  David Hockney

  Ideas, Style, Use

  David Hockney, Maurice Tuchman, Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1988). “David Hockney: a retrospective”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members

  Elliott Smith

  Leaving, Paws, Bears

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• But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would force the narrator to turn around and start his path anew.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Art, Narrators, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I'm not 20 anymore. I don't want to sound corny or look corny doing young things. All the stuff that the kids are doing, that's not my place. I believe that everyone followed me back then, they're still here. That's who I'm trying to talk to and relate to. All the trap music and all of that, it's great but I can't do that. I'm going to stay vintage Ginuwine and stay at the place that got me here. That's what people want.

  Ginuwine

  Believe, Kids, Vintage

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Memories, Past

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 18, 2017

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