(38 quotes found)
“A story from 'Last Barrier' aptly illustrates it. The Turkish Sufi Master tells his Christians devotee that every morning he sends a message of love to no one particular; whoever is ready, listens to it, responds.”
Atharva Veda
“There's not a nook within this solemn pass/ But were an apt confessional for one/ Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,/ That life is but a tale of morning grass/ Withered at eve.”
William Wordsworth
“Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.”
Harry S Truman
“When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.”
Walter Bagehot
“Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.”
Charles Williams
“Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies”
Frank Gelett Burgess
“Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
