#trap

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#beat #circle #deadly #difficult #even

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. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #department #down #fire #house

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#details #gets #his #life #own

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#beat #death #end #leave #more

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appeal #bootstraps #country #extraordinary #freedom-loving

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. ↗

— Anna Freud

#examined #future #live #our #past

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

— David Frum

#changes #industry #look #media #technology

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped. ↗

— David Frum

#elite #leading #trapped

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american history #been #color #contributions #history