Apt Quotes - page 2

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. (George Eliot)
. . . people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it. View quote
George Eliot
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance...to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man...The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent. View quote
James Frazer
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote. View quote
Samuel Johnson
All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders. View quote
Francis Galton
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many. View quote
Seneca
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain. View quote
John Dryden
To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. View quote
Tacitus
The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity. View quote
J. L. Austin
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. View quote
Ralph Ellison
When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness. (Anthony Trollope)
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company. View quote
John Vanbrugh
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions. View quote
Bertrand Russell
This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus. View quote
John Newton
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. View quote
E. B. White