Top 100 Quotes About Apt
#1. When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
Jim Lee
#2. Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.
Washington Irving
#3. For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.
John Locke
#5. Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
Henry Knox
#6. People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#7. There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are apt to hurry both into fever.
Charlotte Bronte
#8. But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
George Eliot
#9. My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#10. Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana?" Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look.
"We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit," Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him.
Larry McMurtry
#11. People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#12. Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
Honore De Balzac
#13. Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes
#14. You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#16. People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Jane Porter
#17. There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.
John Roberts
#18. Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
Harriet Martineau
#19. When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
Stephen King
#20. It has been my experience throughout life that the people who have been given the most by our government - education, food, rent subsidies - are the ones who are most apt to find fault with the whole idea of government.
Elizabeth Strout
#21. The real things are apt to be deviant.
Osamu Dazai
#22. Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
Winston Churchill
#23. In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
Oswald Chambers
#24. In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.
J. Gresham Machen
#25. Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.
Dan Brown
#26. I smiled and held my peace. Women are apt to lose perspective when fat with child.
Mark Lawrence
#27. As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'
Lawrence Block
#28. Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
E.B. White
#29. There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
William Penn
#30. Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
Diogenes
#31. Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#32. When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
Charles Caleb Colton
#33. Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.
Helen Fisher
#35. Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William Ewart Gladstone
#36. Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character
Edward Bates
#37. A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.
James Ellis
#38. In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.
Concha Buika
#40. The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
B.C. Forbes
#41. There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
Simon Mainwaring
#42. If one of the little Pontellier boys took a tumble whilst at play, he was not apt to rush crying to his mother's arms for comfort; he would more likely pick himself up, wipe the water out of his eyes and the sand out of his mouth, and go on playing.
Kate Chopin
#43. No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton
#44. I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.
John Updike
#45. Like the college professor he was, Kittredge groped only for big words, and, finding no apt ones, he coined a lot of untranslatable new ones.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. a deep love and passion for your business is having a plan. A plan is critical. Without this roadmap, you are apt to get lost.
Dennise Cardona
#47. If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
Frederick Buechner
#48. Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away
John Mark Reynolds
#49. History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
Harold Macmillan
#50. Unless he was one of the furiously successful minority, he was apt to be haunted by moments of brooding, too formless to be called meditation, and of yearning, too blind to be called desire.
Olaf Stapledon
#51. We cannot speak loudly or angrily at such times; we are not apt to be eager about mere worldly things, for our very awe at our quickened sense of the nearness of the invisible world, makes us calm and serene about the petty trifles of today.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#52. Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Elizabeth Montagu
#53. Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.
Matthew Henry
#54. The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle.
#55. When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Alice Hegan Rice
#56. Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.
David Hume
#57. In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to a human being with his skin removed.
Erik Larson
#58. The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
Ellen Glasgow
#59. In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.
Thomas Paine
#60. Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others
Michael Pollan
#61. When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.
Charles Caleb Colton
#62. I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make you slap yo' Aint Emma" was apt in her case.
Mars Hill
#64. When one spends what he has on himselef, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say he doesn't know what to do with his money.
Henry Miller
#65. Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
Harold Macmillan
#66. Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#67. Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)
Geoffrey Nunberg
#68. Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#69. Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
Henry Ward Beecher
#70. Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
Margaret Mitchell
#71. We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
Joseph Addison
#72. I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
Charles Darwin
#74. Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages.
Georgette Heyer
#75. The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
Jane Austen
#76. O hateful error, melancholy's child. Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not? O error soon22 conceived, 70 Thou never comest unto a happy birth, But kill'st the mother that engendered23 thee.
William Shakespeare
#78. As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical, less apt to blame and less tormented by others and their faults and views.
Bryant McGill
#80. Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
Marianne Williamson
#81. The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#82. That is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
Evelyn Waugh
#83. Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
Charles Williams
#84. A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
Jonathan Swift
#85. When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
Henry Ward Beecher
#86. Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.
Elizabeth O'Connor
#87. One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.
Ruth Sawyer
#88. But the world, as a creation, is not a mere construction; it too is more than a syntax. It is a poem, which we are apt to forget when grammar takes exclusive hold of our minds.
Anonymous
#89. The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.
Frederick Buechner
#90. An imaginative man is apt to see, in his life, the story of his life; and is thereby led to conduct himself in life in such a manner as to make a good story of it rather than a good life.
Henry Taylor
#91. It's true," I said softly. "You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience." I leaned forward and whispered, my lips brushing the shell of his ear. "But I am an apt pupil.
Leigh Bardugo
#92. The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
Siri Hustvedt
#93. Apt and poetic though this was, it was simply too bleak to read at a funeral. Instead I settled on Rumfoord's farewell speech on page 2007, which starts: "I am not dying. I am merely taking my leave of the solar system," and ends: "I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.
Gavin Extence
#94. It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein
#95. Donald T. Campbell explained in a renowned 1976 paper, The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.
Nicholas Carr
#96. Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt
To slacken virtue and abate her edge
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
John Milton
#97. Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
Murray Rothbard
#98. The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
Pope Pius XII
#99. For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
Teju Cole
#100. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
