I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [. . . ] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.
We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.
A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
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.
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith. " We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.