Trap Quotes

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
Mitch Hedberg

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

Trust, Death, Mind

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

Best, Heart, Thinking

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

Love, Light, Shadows

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
John Steinbeck

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
Jacques Lacan

Mean, Find, Means

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Great, Yourself, Trying

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

Mind, Real, Thinking

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

Hard, Honor, Escape

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Long, Enough, Moment

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia

Real, Problem, Problems

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
Catherine Deneuve

Marriage, Obsolete

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.
Susan Orlean

Kids, College, Changed

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

Time, Death, End

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

Turn, Grab, Buy

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Alexander Smith

Life, Today, Tomorrow

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

Everything, Possible, Escape

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
Bjork

Sometimes, Rather, Fall

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
Leonardo DiCaprio

Find, Easy, Might

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
Freeman Dyson

Human, Public, Fall

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

Successful, Yourself, Trying

Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.
Jewel

Work, Successful, Yourself

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Arnold J. Toynbee

City, Walking, Powers

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

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
Curtis Stone

Away, Stay, Eat

It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
Nathan Fillion

Character, Someone, Person

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.
Maureen O'Hara

Family, Career, Another

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

Special, Parent, Remarkable

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

Leaving, Put, Bear

The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap.
Lindsey Graham

Death, Become, President

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