#apt

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #catch #company #contagious #disease

I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#dark #poetic-fiction #beauty

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#age #aging #body #body fat #does

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#book #direct #forced #i #movies

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#adapt #altered #been #beginning #believers

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#fun #go #keep #kind #times

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#attention #capture #cash #hours #instrument

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#captivity #going #had #i #place

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#captain #else #fights #had #i

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#defeat #down #education #educational #ends