Trapped Quotes

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

Life, Time, Courage

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright

Power, Yesterday, Store

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams

Live, Fire, Down

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut

Why, Moment, Here

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
Henry Rollins

Behind, Inside, Mountain

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
David Cameron

Work, Worth, While

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.
Wes Anderson

Lonely, Together, Sometimes

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Mick Jagger

Forget, Past, Why

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
Henry Louis Gates

Work, Future, Society

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Aeschylus

Sense, Ruin, Net

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.
Jerry Seinfeld

Old, Audience, Prefer

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
Marco Rubio

Work, Power, Government

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
Jeanne Moreau

Yourself, Important, Giving

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.
David Cameron

Through, Poverty, Hand

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
Jasmine Guy

Women, Men, Sad

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
William J. Clinton

Deep, Debt, Web

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Famous, Book, Words

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates

History, Made, American

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
Henry Louis Gates

Positive, Society, Black

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson

Love, Success, Time

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
Elayne Boosler

Woman, Person, Body

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
Jeremy Renner

Life, Change, Work

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
Adam Lambert

Try, Style, Musical

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.
Steven Seagal

Child, Body, Felt

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
John Cusack

Time, Real, Through

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
Vera Wang

End, Fashion, Hear

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Cullen Hightower

Thinking, Worry, Street

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
Virginia C. Andrews

Fear, Children, Control

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.
Jonathan Sacks

America, Personal, Anyone

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