Trapped Quotes - Page 10

• I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

  Gene Wolfe

  Long, Amber, Admiration

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.221, Macmillan

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• All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

  Homer

  Men, Body, Fats

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• Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

  Michael Moorcock

  Fate, People, Self Made

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• You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

  Jack Gantos

  Grandma, Miserable, Middle

  Jack Gantos (2002). “What Would Joey Do?”, p.65, Macmillan

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• Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

  Theodore White

  Moving, Responsibility, Power

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Heart, White, Dating

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around.

  Barbara Sher

  Guarantees That, Careers, Worry

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.30, Dell

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• Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators
  That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'

  MF Grimm

  Pain, Rap, Hip Hop

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• How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Gratitude, Winning, Competition

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• We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.

  Julie Roberts

  Couple, Rainy Day, Waiting

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• When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Struggle, Safe Haven

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I start to think, and then I sink
  Into the paper like I was ink
  When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
  I escape when I finish the rhyme.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

  Song: I Know You Got Soul

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• The 9th chamber, leave you trapped inside my hallway
  You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)
  No question, I send your ass back, right to the essence
  Your whole frame is smothered in dirt, now how you restin

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Essence, Trying

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• Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Art, Children

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• I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
  I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

  Eminem

  Real, Air, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil part II, Album: The Slim Shady LP, 1999

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• This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

  Reks

  Rap, Past, Apples

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• I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

  Courteney Cox

  Moving, Skins, Faces

  "Courteney Cox Loves Botox, Therapy". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

  Greil Marcus

  Success, Stories, Rehabilitation

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

  Niels Bohr

  Play, Degrees, Statistics

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Events

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• The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

  Mary Daly

  Roots, Etymology, Sin

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• The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped.

  Marilyn Frye

  People, Way, Life Is

  Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

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• Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Teaching, Echoes

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• People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

  Amy Gerstler

  Laughter, Dark, Winter

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

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