Trapped Quotes

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.