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“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?”

Mind Humans Desire Human Beings Wonder Spring Doctors Intention Traps

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?”

Form Wit Censorship Traps Sadistic

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.”

Ifs Knows Needs Law Born Common Cases Share Policy Fairs Caught Immigration Common Sense Ireland Traps New Yorkers Fair Share Immigration Policy Immigration Laws

Author:Michael Bloomberg

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

Knows America Sex Family Study Economic Disappointment Traps Family Life Minefields

Author:Anne Roiphe

“The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?”

Alternatives Revolutionary Classic Traps

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.”

Ifs Needs Process Natural Tree Planets Species Atmosphere Traps Carbon Carbon Dioxide Photosynthesis

Author:Wangari Maathai

“I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.”

Thinking Easy Interest Talking Media Cynical Traps

Author:Stephen Colbert

“An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.”

Needs Giving Feels Trying Believe Matter Enough Seems Responsibility Demand Caught Traps Entitled Pits Needy Drained Abusers Catering

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.”

Ifs Needs Mind Kind Ambition Traps Modeling Great Beginnings

Author:Maud Adams

“Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.”

Want Language Five Locals Restaurants Traps Tourists Menus

Author:Curtis Stone

“Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.”

Wanted Fall Ego Hollywood Traps Elise

Author:Kimberly Elise

“I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.”

Thinking Self Enough Stories Feelings Past Hard Work Healthy Harder Good Enough Traps Cant Work Harder Dose Loathing Not Good Enough Self Loathing

Author:Kim Cattrall

“The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!”

People Looks Eating Vote Irony Voting Voters Traps Tails Snakes Idiotic

Author:Steven Weber

“My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.”

Ifs Wells Said Stills Ends Might Christian America Remember Jesus Music Lord Music Is Bigger Performing Upset Bless Traps Touring God Bless Fleas Ku Klux Klan God Bless America

Author:John Lennon

“If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.”

Ifs Way I Can Sometimes Reason Feelings Stuff Hell Seeing Doors Cold Healthy Picks Parenting Fingers Busy Artistic Traps Glimpse Sean Wallowing Feeling Depressed Reason To Stay

Author:John Lennon

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

Cheese Traps Mice Mouse Traps

Author:Wendell Johnson

“What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.”

People Needs Feels Important Weak Caught Recognition Traps Validation

Author:Paulo Coelho

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

Long Wealth Financial Credit Tricks Cards Traps Mortgage Credit Card Transactions

Author:Jeff Merkley

“Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.”

Black Media Mass Cycles Traps Friday Herds Dynamics Hallucinations Black Friday

Author:Seth Godin

“We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.”

Ifs Feels Persons Has Beens Said Sometimes Clear Advantage Caught Again And Again Traps Explaining

Book:Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

Source: Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

“One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.”

Want Writing Firsts Long Book Use Three Energy Term Traps Pitfalls Trilogies

Author:Justin Cronin

“The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, “What's your alternative?” But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Mean Doe Facts Use Jobs Turns Common Cases Technique Alternatives Revolutionary Classic Convince Sincere Destroying Traps Offensive Oppressed Blueprints

Author:Shulamith Firestone

“In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.”

World Lying Evil Lost Rich Strange Terrible Horror Lonely Filled Monsters Treasure Hills Traps Tombs

Book:Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Has Beens Fall Architecture Abstract Traps Abstraction Constructive

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.”

Kind Reputation Traps Reacting

Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

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

Mean Next Traps

Book:The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Source: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation can become dangerous. Deep down we know that life is insecure and precarious. However, if we do trust, the shiver carries with it a philosophical optimism: Life, with all its traps and horrors, is good The bet is implicit in trust itself. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value - like money, if it were suddenly limitless, or sunshine, if there were always fine weather, or life, if we were to live forever”

“If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.”

Ifs Would Be Earth Suffering Energy Happened Air Effects Amount Ocean Atmosphere Excess Rolling Traps Extinction Temperature Venus Greenhouses Runaway Solar Energy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.”

Want Whole Fall Race Player Guitar Traps Competing Guitar Player

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.”

Thinking Men Self Matter Moments Realizing Effort Plans Truth Is Importance Strive Meaningless Traps Liberating Unimportant Self-importance Nothing Matters

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

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

Lying Taken Traps Blackness

Author:Alice Walker

“Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.”

Thinking Hard Fall Too Much Hard Work Distraction Traps Workplace Cheerful

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.”

Thinking Kids Fall Parent Perfect Teaching Winner Traps

Author:Summer Sanders

“In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.”

World Has Beens Hard Used Passion Three Half Achievement Empathy Excuse Obstacles Divorce Motherhood Traps Three Times Marriage And Divorce

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.”

Writing Real Stories Running Fall Courses Individual Rooms Situation Novel Risk Traps Sentimentality Sensationalism

Author:Emma Donoghue

“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.”

Thinking Careers Lucky Safety Traps Repetition

Author:Martin Short

“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?”

“Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.”

Way Humans Imagination Kindness Danger Traps Human Relationships Pitfalls

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.”

Cutting Spring Arrogance Gates Traps Rope Old Woman

Author:Mason Cooley

“I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.”

Waiting Car Fairs Speed Injury Barriers Traps Ferrari Gravel

Author:Allan McNish

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

Advice Bounds Traps

Author:Paul Valery

“I never say "nagging". I think that "nagging" is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.”

Thinking Men Mean Success Faith Term Relationship Asking Get Away Traps Pipe Harvey Nagging

Author:Steve Harvey

“Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.”

Courses Design Tools Traps

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.”

People Ifs Trying Fall Hurt Justice Worry Remains Tricks Holes Have Faith Traps Cheater

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.”

People World Way Want Believe Law Culture Language Can Do Millions Imagine Products Fine Safe Okay Boring Trapped Traps Want U Cradle Molecules

Book:Invisible Monsters Remix

Source: Invisible Monsters Remix

“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.”

Men Caught Deception Cheating Traps

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.”

Culture Journey Feet Train Lists Locals Boat Lunch Racing Airplane Take Time Traps Rivals Bicycle Tourists Plugs Barcelona Savour

Author:Carl Honore

“Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.”

Economic Increase Dollars Credit Billions Meaningful Tricks Recovery Consumers Weed Traps Sap Accelerate Economic Recovery Consumer Confidence

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.”

“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”

Funny Comedy Laughter Humorous Witty Traps Pancakes Syrup Waffles Maple Syrup Corn Syrup

Author:Mitch Hedberg

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