Traps Quotes

I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

Trapped in a trap of your own making.

Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.

Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.

You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

Success and failure are terrible traps.

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.