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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.
Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.
Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.
A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.
Memphis is just like any other city. I'm pretty sure it's like the streets of Baltimore, with your hoods and traps.
I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.
You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.
Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?
Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job.
Never underestimate how profoundly marked biceps and defined traps can improve your personal style, particularly if you spend as much time in a sleeveless shirt as Nate Thurmond.
To some degree, this re-release is to let people remember what the first 'Saw' film was, and let them know there was a time in the 'Saw' history where it wasn't all about blood and traps.
Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.
Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.
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.