Top 66 Apt Quotes

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

I don’t dream songs. I’m more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

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.

If you say ‘Domo arigato’ to people, they’re apt to go, ‘Mr. Roboto.’

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?

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.

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today‘s art – what I call ‘Bankers‘ Dada’ – mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I’ve seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, ‘A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards‘, is apt in these days of witless chancers.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

I haven‘t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

‘Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou’d, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.

When you hurry you’re more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you’re not quick you can’t get things done.

Guys are more apt to test me than they are to test a Charles Barkley. I think I have to go out and prove myself all the time, and that’s fine, because I’ve had to prove myself my whole life.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don’t even know what stand-up is.

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs ‘good tricks.’

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

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.

A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn’t find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

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.

I don’t write about too many male businessmen, and I’m not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

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.

Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into her group, and the children will perceive that He is present and that He assists in their work; thus, He will take possession of their souls.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

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.

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there’s some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let’s say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

I think the four men of the Beatles are an apt comparison for one Robin Lopez.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you’ve done it.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend‘s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother‘s happiness.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

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.

I think that at one moment you’re apt for one thing, and at the next moment you’re apt for something else.

Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he’s stranded on a desert island in that movie ‘Castaway.’ It’s an apt comparison: parenting a toddler occasionally feels like being marooned, and your phone is your only connection to the rest of the world.

For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell‘s ‘1984.’ Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: ‘Animal Farm.’

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.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

If all girls turn strong within themselves, men with bad intentions can be taught apt lessons.

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.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

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.

I’ve come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society – and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.