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Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.
You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter.
There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.
Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.
If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.
All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”
The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.
Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.
I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but there's The Defenders.
For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.
There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.
I have too many guys that count on me as a coach so in 2009 you're going to see me in a lot of cages and rings but I'll only be in them to corner my fighters.
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go.
« Barabas pulled Christopher out of the cage. The man stared up at him. “I died, didn’t I? Are you an angel?” “Sure,” Barabas said. “Follow me to the Heavenly Shower »
If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.
Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.
Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster’s cage was clean, I’d be happy to oblige.
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.
The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.
Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Prosthetics just felt very foreign to me: You wear them on your shoulders, strap them to your chest, and they're heavy and uncomfortable. If someone gave you a hug, you'd miss that touch. They were more like a cage for me.
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.