Trap Quotes

To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness. — John Bosco

Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???
You were in their trap... — Deyth Banger

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg

HAVING IT ALL." Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase. — Sheryl Sandberg

To snatch the worm from the trap. — Plautus

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there. — Ben Affleck

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light. — Don DeLillo

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself. — Jacques Derrida

Everywhere I step, I find only corners," Father whispered. "Slowly, they trap me. — Brandon Sanderson

Please, Jonas. Men got brute strength and size. Women got hot bodies and steel-trap minds. It's our leg up in your little male-dominated society. — Jackson Pearce

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. — Al Goldstein

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

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there. — Martin Short

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives. — Michael Gerber

Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me. — Maury Wills

Cath didn't feel, for the moment, like her DNA was a trap ready to snap closed on her. — Rainbow Rowell

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska. — Mark Begich

Lies are a trap, not a deception. — Barry Kelly

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out. — Vik Sahay

Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy. — David Harsanyi

When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks — Molly Harper

When you are bred to be white trash, you do what you can to avoid the family trap. — Gayle Forman

Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. — Jo Nesbo

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. — Jacques Derrida

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills. — Maureen O'Hara

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ... — Rudyard Kipling

We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us." (p.162) — Joshua David Stone

Our goal should not be to reshape masculinity but to eliminate it. The goal is liberation from the masculinity trap. — Robert Jensen

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. — Simon Cowell

This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change. — Rabindranath Maharaj

Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control. — Karen Azinger

As I walk alone in Hell, my mind becomes my only ally, and even he cannot be trusted. — K. Trap Jones

I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap. — Carolyn Keene

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. — Akash Lal Karotia

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger. — Josh Billings

... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. — Louisa May Alcott

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. — LeCrae

The trap had a ghastly perfection — Stephen King

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap. — Leslie Morgan Steiner

How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from. — Jonathan Friesen

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes. — Anne Roiphe

Loyalty is our strength (...) Loyalty is another lie you use to trap the unwary in your designs. — Anthony Ryan

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. — Margaret Mead

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear. — Tim Flock

The biggest trap in life consists in achieving illusions after years of hard work and realize that there's nothing there but an empty you. — Robin Sacredfire

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind. — Madonna Ciccone

the world is the cradle and your trap. — Chuck Palahniuk

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style. — Norman Mailer

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

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap. — Maralee McKee

Proving yourself is a dangerous trap. — Richard Carlson

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it ... a cheese-trap. — Joe Abercrombie

Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now. — Douglas Copeland

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one. — Elizabeth Hand

[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object. — Warren Farrell

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them. — Paul Mooney

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes. — Thomas Howes

If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you — Mahalia Jackson

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley

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

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle. — Seth Godin

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn ... the thorn's only purpose is to hurt. — Mark Lawrence

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

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. — Jedediah Berry

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are — Guy Finley

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life? — Phyllis Bottome

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #15: AN OPEN DOOR IS EITHER A GREETING OR A TRAP. BEST TO DECIDE WHICH BEFORE YOU ENTER. — Mark Frost

Even a good family can become a trap for one's destiny when the family becomes your aim — Sunday Adelaja

Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for. — Robin Thede

If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them. — Douglas Wilson

Thinking that every idea and piece of content you create must be the first of its kind is a trap. — Sujan Patel

Well I had the perfect job, perfect house and perfect family and I didn't know it. I kept striving for more. — Annette J. Dunlea

The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy. — Fetty Wap

Love is a trap. Don't ever get caught. — Dia Reeves

I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap. — Rodney Dangerfield

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. — Oliver Burkeman

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. — William Bernbach

Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The fox condemns the trap, not himself — William Blake

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. — Raymond Chandler

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. — Saki

A trap is as someone else hunting for you when you can't, it is truly your best hunting buddy! — Blake Alma

Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything. — Frederick Lenz

This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God. — Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said! — Natalie Clifford Barney

A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward
one inevitable conclusion — E.J. Patten

Trapped in a trap of your own making. — David Baldacci

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked. — Jada Pinkett Smith

There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience. — John Debney

It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have. — Eric Samuel Timm

So why, then, can't Ackbar shake the feeling that once again they are about to fall into a trap? — Chuck Wendig

Trapped like a trap in a trap — Dorothy Parker

The trap had teeth. — George R R Martin