Caught Quotes - Page 19

• It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

  Tom Upton

  School, Cows, Easy

  Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.33, Tom Upton

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• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  Bill Shuster

  Military, Moving, Fighting

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• I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire." His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples.

  Cassandra Clare

  Couple, Fire, Lips

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• The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

  Iris Johansen

  Writing, Character, Sleep

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• Deep, dark unearthly black. I hadn't told anyone yet, but the color kept streaking across my mind at the oddest moments. When it did, my skin shivered pleasantly, and it was as if I could feel the color tracing a finger tenderly along my jaw, tipping my chin up to face it directly. I knew it was absurd to think a color would come to life, but once or twice, I was sure I'd caught a flash of something more substantial behind the color. A pair of eyes. The way they studied me cut to the heart.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Heart, Cutting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• It's so easy to get caught up in doing and achieving that we often neglect to make time to be with the people we care about most.

  Donna Smallin

  People, Care, Easy

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• It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

  Paul Zindel

  Thinking, Talking, Nuts

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• When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

  Florence Welch

  Lying, People, Want

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• Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

  Guido von List

  Life, Religious, Nature

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• Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

  Dallas Willard

  Sight, Trying, Doe

  Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson (2015). “Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, England, Slave

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Aug. 16, 1856-Aug. 7, 1857”

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• As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Dark, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.206, Modern Library

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• Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  World, Corporations, Politician

  "The I in the Triangle". Speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California, 1990.

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• I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Disease, Nostalgia, Nostalgic

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• Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.

  Arthur Tress

  Photography, Fall, Mean

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• Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Flirting, Water, Rose

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1852). “Reveries of a bachelor: or, A book of the heart, by Ik. Marvel”, p.78

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• Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Stalking, Creatures

  "Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin".

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• It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Fall, Character

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• Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

  Margaret Atwood

  Here And There, Half, Fertility

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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• Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.

  Richard Wilbur

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.434, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cold, Praise, Well Dressed

  Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.171, Read Books Ltd

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• When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

  Dalai Lama

  Independence, Emotion, Assets

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• Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, Running, Simple

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• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the "popular" choice.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Passion, Creativity, Expression

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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