Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day c...atch you unexpectedly, like a trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting t...ogether in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men "stood on nothin', a-lookin' up a rope." The platf...orm had a trap wide enought to "accommodate" 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. ...The public is odorless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ...ideas of correct "feminine" behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little lifting helplessness, the queer Whimper-whine; whose unridiculous... Lost softness softly makes a trap for us. And makes a curse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a thinking person attains adulthood and develops a mature consciousness, he reluctantly feels himself in a trap from which th...ere is no exit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »