Quotes of: Apt Keyword

3rd SWAT Cop in Projects Apt.: Shoot it, man! Shoot it in the head!

Dawn of the Dead

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.

Anne Sullivan

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

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 E. Gladstone

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

Samuel Richardson

The strangest experiences in life are apt to lose their effect if dwelt upon long enough. ("Furze Hollow")

A.M. Burrage

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

Atul Gawande

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu

Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.

Lynda Resnick

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

George Eliot

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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.

Laurie Helgoe

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

James Madison

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

William Dampier

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Walter Bagehot

We can't go back, though we're apt to waver even as our wheels spin on.

Collusion

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

The Shock of the New

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

Robert Hall

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Samuel Richardson