Quotes about trap
A collection of quotes on the topic of trap, likeness, doing, use.
Quotes about trap
“Trapped in life, only escape I know is death.”
"Hidden"

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Amanda, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
Norah Vincent, Sex, Love and Politics: Andrea Dworkin, in New York Press, vol. 11, no. 5, Feb. 4–10, 1998, p. 40, col. 4 (main title and subtitle may have been in either order, per id., p. [1]).

before playing "Between the Bars" at a concert in 1996. http://www.archive.org/details/esmith2006-09-25..flacf.

“Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain”, p. 133.
This is a paraphrase of Thoreau: see explanation by the Walden Woods project http://www.walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page).
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Arizona and New Mexico: On Top," & "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain"

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18
Variant translations of portions of this passage:
Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft. Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by craft, and in the end have overcome those who have relied on their word.
Ch. 18. Concerning the Way in which Princes should keep Faith (as translated by W. K. Marriott)
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for 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.
You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second.
Context: A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this.
Context: How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation. You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary to know well how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to princes by ancient writers, who relate how Achilles and many others of those princes were given to Chiron the centaur to be brought up, who kept them under his discipline; this system of having for teacher one who was half beast and half man is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that the one without the other is not durable. A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.... those that have been best able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler.
Source: The Sacred Romance Drawing Closer To The Heart Of God

“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
Hero, Act III, scene i.
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)

“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”

“When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.”

Remarks by the President in YSEALI Town Hall at Taylor's University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 20, 2015) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/20/remarks-president-yseali-town-hall
2015

De Abaitua interview (1998)

“I have no idea what I am talking about
I'm trapped in this body and can't get out”
Bodysnachers
Lyrics, In Rainbows (2007)

Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham (9 January 1790)
1790s

And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)

Comment on Stahl interview in Madam Secretary (2003), pp. 274-275
2000s

Keith (1968) PhotoplayMagazine.com
Brian Keith on starring in his own movies

ABC News interview (16 August 2006)

H. Rosner, trans. (Bantam: 1971), pp. 76-79
Siddhartha (1922)
Context: The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish—acquisitiveness. Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden.

“I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.”
2016, Remarks to the People of Cuba (March 2016)
Context: Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.

2012, Remarks at Clinton Global Initiative (September 2012)
Context: Now, I do not use that word, "slavery" lightly. It evokes obviously one of the most painful chapters in our nation’s history. But around the world, there’s no denying the awful reality. When a man, desperate for work, finds himself in a factory or on a fishing boat or in a field, working, toiling, for little or no pay, and beaten if he tries to escape -- that is slavery. When a woman is locked in a sweatshop, or trapped in a home as a domestic servant, alone and abused and incapable of leaving -- that’s slavery. When a little boy is kidnapped, turned into a child soldier, forced to kill or be killed -- that’s slavery. When a little girl is sold by her impoverished family -- girls my daughters’ age -- runs away from home, or is lured by the false promises of a better life, and then imprisoned in a brothel and tortured if she resists -- that’s slavery. It is barbaric, and it is evil, and it has no place in a civilized world.

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)
Context: The March on Washington teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history; that we are masters of our fate. But it also teaches us that the promise of this nation will only be kept when we work together. We’ll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place 50 years ago. And I believe that spirit is there, that truth force inside each of us. I see it when a white mother recognizes her own daughter in the face of a poor black child. I see it when the black youth thinks of his own grandfather in the dignified steps of an elderly white man. It’s there when the native-born recognizing that striving spirit of the new immigrant; when the interracial couple connects the pain of a gay couple who are discriminated against and understands it as their own. That’s where courage comes from -- when we turn not from each other, or on each other, but towards one another, and we find that we do not walk alone. That’s where courage comes from.

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)

1900s, "The Study of Mathematics" (November 1907)
Fabricated, The Hidden Tyranny interview

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“A rose trapped inside a fist.”
Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
Source: Long Goodbye
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“We're trapped in linguistic constructs… all that is is metaphor.”

“theres no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.”
Variant: there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.”
Source: The Clue of the Broken Locket
Source: Finding Beauty in a Broken World

“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”
Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
“I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.”
Source: There's Treasure Everywhere

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
Source: Between The Tides
Quoted by Katherine Martin in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, p. 268 (1999)
“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”
Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.”
Source: Immortality

“Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better”