Apt Quotes - page 4

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. (Honoré de Balzac)
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved. View quote
John Chrysostom
We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us. View quote
Helen Fisher
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. View quote
Charles Williams
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best. View quote
Gabriela Mistral
So, probably.... when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones - what I saw through them - particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one's world.... they were most beautiful against the Blue - that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. View quote
Lady Bird Johnson
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories. (Raymond Cattell)
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. View quote
Harvey Cushing
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. View quote
Harvey Cushing
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap. View quote
Carolyn Keene
I'm apt to get drunk on words... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. View quote
Augustus Hare
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way. View quote
Buffalo Bill
If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime. (Hod Lipson)
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. View quote
Frederick Pollock
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. View quote
William Dampier
Mr. Llewellyn paused. Mr. Trout had begun to float about the room like something out of Swan Lake, and Mr. Llewellyn disapproved of this. He was apt to be a martinet in his dealings with his legal advisers, demanding that lawyers should behave like lawyers and leave eccentric dancing to the professionals. A man, he held, is either Fred Astaire or he is not Fred Astaire, and if he is not Fred Astaire he should not carry on like him. View quote
Fred Astaire
I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science. ... I inferred that genera & Families with very few species (i.e. from Extinction) would be apt (not necessarily always) to have narrow ranges & disjoined ranges. You will not perceive, perhaps, what I am driving at & it is not worth enlarging on, - but I look at Extinction as common cause of small genera & disjoined ranges & therefore they ought, if they behaved properly & as nature does not lie to go together! View quote
Charles Darwin