Traps Quotes

“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door.

"That was awesome," Seth told Kendra.

"You're psychotic," Kendra replied.”
― Brandon Mull, Grip of the Shadow Plague

“He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.”
― Alice Munro

“In order to find your true potential, what you need to do is simply determine your core values, visualize the person you want to be, challenge common thought traps, and have a clear sense of your goals.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.”
― Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever

“Could even be some prehistoric tricks with wooden logs flying like pendulums or spikes under the moving floor. Perhaps a net—used to catch monkeys?”
― Misba, The Oldest Dance

“the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be the
smallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet; darkness can shine!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you know your life mission and life goal, you will be better able to avoid the life traps”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Mari stared at him. "Are you telling me that you came to rescue me, following a metaphorical thread through imaginary holes, but now that you're in the same cell with me you can't get us out?"
"Yes, that is correct. This one erred."
"That one sure did. Now instead of one of us being stuck in here, we're both stuck in here."
The Mage gave her a look which actually betrayed a trace of irritation. He must have really been exhausted for such a feeling to show. "I do not have much experience with rescues. Are you always so difficult?”
― Jack Campbell, The Dragons of Dorcastle

“The light changed slightly. Mari looked up and over at one wall. There was now a narrow, roughly door-shaped hole in it. Standing in the hole was Mage Alain.
Mari stood up, realizing that her mouth was hanging open. That wall was solid. I felt it. There wasn't any opening. She watched as the Mage took two shaky steps into the cell, then paused, some of the strain leaving his face. She blinked, wondering what she had just seen, as the hole in the wall vanished as if it had never been. One moment it was there, the next it was gone. ...
Mari took a long slow breath. 'They use smoke and mirrors and other 'magic' to make commons think they can create temporary holes in walls and things like that. It's all nonsense.' "Mages actually can make real holes in walls."
"No."
Her head hurting with increased intensity, Mari glowered at the Mage. "You didn't make a hole in the wall?"
"I made the illusion of a hole in the illusion of the wall."
Mari looked at Mage Alain for what felt like a long time, trying to detect any sign of mockery or lying. But he seemed perfectly sincere. And unless she had completely lost her mind, he had just walked through that solid wall. ...
"We can get out the same way that you got in?" Mari asked. "Through imaginary holes in the imaginary wall?" She wondered how her guild would feel about seeing that in her report. Actually, she didn't have to wonder, but she wasn't about to turn down a chance at escape.
The Mage took a deep breath and swayed on his feet. "No."
"No?"
"Unfortunately—" Alain collapsed into a seated position on the cot next to her—"the effort of finding you has exhausted me. There were several walls to get through. I can do no more for some time. I am probably incapable of any major effort until morning." He shook his head. "I did not plan this well. Maybe the elders are right and seventeen is simply too young to be a Mage."
Mari stared at him. "Are you telling me that you came to rescue me, following a metaphorical thread through imaginary holes, but now that you're in the same cell with me you can't get us out?"
"Yes, that is correct. This one erred."
"That one sure did. Now instead of one of us being stuck in here, we're both stuck in here."
The Mage gave her a look which actually betrayed a trace of irritation. He must have really been exhausted for such a feeling to show. "I do not have much experience with rescues. Are you always so difficult?”
― Jack Campbell, The Dragons of Dorcastle

“Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.”
― Kimberly Morgan, On Angels and Rabbit Holes

“Be wary of the generosity of men; it could be a trap.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“We look to the sky,
in search of fortune
as our feet bleed
across Atlas’ traps.

In deep dug holes,
a lingering groove
voices the wisdom
of its adventurer.

[Atlas’ Groove]”
― Susan L. Marshall, Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

“The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Kutoka nyumbani kwako hadi kazini kwako na kutoka kazini kwako hadi nyumbani kwako, umeepuka wastani wa mitego 10,000 ya Shetani! Kuwa na huruma kwa malaika anayekulinda.”
― Enock Maregesi

“He will catch anything he can get his snares and traps around, he began, including cobras, monitor lizards, pythons, turtles, otters, civets (small carnivores), fishing cats, and more. He's not a huge fan of monkeys - they creep him out with their humanoid little faces, he said - but he'll catch them, too. Above all else, though, he prides himself on his skill at trapping pangolins, one of the most elusive but lucrative creatures in the forest.”
― Rachel Love Nuwer, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking

“Arik believed that one of the most fundamental laws of human psychology was that force caused resistance. Make people feel trapped, and they will never stop attempting to escape. But obscure the trap well enough, and it was possible to stop the idea of escape from even forming in your prisoners' minds.”
― Christian Cantrell, Containment

“Prisons by Stewart Stafford

There are prisons of bars and jailers,
There are dungeons of the mind,
And of family blackmailers.

Some sit manacled in a marriage cell,
Thunderous isolation next door,
All aflame in loveless hell.

Misery, with no parole in poverty's trap,
While in privileged ivory towers nearby,
Elite confinement in luxury's lap.

Inmates break free to a new golden age,
Other jailbirds await merciful luck,
Destined never to escape the cage.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Kitt Peak National Observatory was infested with rodents. There were so many that rodent traps were in daily use there.”
― Steven Magee

“It’s easy when you know the solution.”
“Many of the best traps are simple,” Annabeth said. “You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn’t.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“The most dangerous trap is the one that tricks you with light!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I prefer the sign NO ENTRY to the one that says NO EXIT.”
― Stanilaus Lec

“By controlling our wants and emotions at the top of the upside-down pyramid, we can avoid the trap at the bottom.”
― Scott Shumway, The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.