Being Trapped In A Situation Quotes & Sayings

The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It's the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment - saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family situation where abuse might take place. So the survivor panics as her relationship gets closer, certain that something terrible is going to happen. She pulls away, rejects, or tests her partner all the time. — Laura Davis

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Nowadays there is really only one habit of highly effective people: Don't fall behind with email. — Jonathan Franzen

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting. — Maria Semple

These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve — Sinclair B. Ferguson

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way. — Patricia McConnell

A Chinese saying describes it well: "As far away as the horizon, and right in front of your face." You can run toward it forever, run faster and faster, and never get any closer. Only when you stop do you realize you are already there. That is exactly our collective situation right now. All of the solutions to the global crisis are sitting right in front of us, but they are invisible to our collective seeing, existing, as it were, in a different universe. When we are trapped in a story, we can only do the things that that story can recognize. Often we are aware of being trapped (the old story is ending) but don't have access to any alternative (we haven't yet inhabited a new story). — Charles Eisenstein

Think of us as symbols - we're the dream that humanity creates to make sense of the shadows on the cave wall. — Neil Gaiman

And so the wooing begins. — L.B. Simmons

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate. — Robert Higgs

Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people. — Lindsay Lohan

It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more. — Kare Anderson

As it was, being a bad mother was child's play compared to being a good mother, which was an incessant struggle, a lose-lose situation 24 hours a day; long after the kids were in bed the torment of what I did or didn't do during those hours we were trapped together would scourge my soul. — Mary Kubica

XAVIER: Being trapped in a life that you didn't choose is no f***** picnic, no matter how good it may appear to people outside of the situation. — Michelle A. Valentine

A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said. — Henry David Thoreau

Boredom is actually the feeling of being trapped doing one thing while wanting to do something else. If we have no sense of being stuck, we simply leave the dull situation — Unknown

If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don't have a life. — Dave Ramsey

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it. — George Carlin

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing. — Georgina Anne Taylor