Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If… — Julia Cameron
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle… — R. Kent Hughes
When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things… — Josh Gates
As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the… — Samuel Johnson
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where… — Margaret Thatcher
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves… — Jonathan Mayhew
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability… — Edward Bates
If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who… — Frederick Buechner
The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments,… — James Clerk Maxwell
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people… — David Hackett Fischer
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen… — Patrick Henry
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof.… — George Washington
But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition,… — Carl von Clausewitz
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders. — Francis Galton
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware… — James Payn
Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted… — Billy Graham
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the… — G. H. Hardy

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