Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

“Wagons rattling and banging, horses neighing and snorting, conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip, fathers and mothers, wives and children,…

— Tu Fu

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

— Teju Cole

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

— Teller

“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters…

— Erik Pevernagie

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

— Frederick Pollock

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

— Jeremy Taylor

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

— David Rakoff

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

— William Hedgcock Webster

“Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...a great man. But...not quite great enough.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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

— Roy L. Smith

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…

— Jonathan Turley

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…

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Robert Hall

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

— John Collison